CRYSTAL LAKE Nov 2010 NEWS UPDATE
from CLCA President Bill Lee
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CRYSTAL LAKE NOVEMBER UPDATE: Dec. 2nd, 2010 Season’s Greetings from your Executive to all fellow Crystal Lake cottagers and friends of Crystal Lake. We wish you all the best for 2011! Although the garden rain gauge was removed at the end of November, it was not difficult to tell that Crystal Lake received some heavy precipitation, especially near the end of November. This is quite evident as the lake levels have gone up in the past couple of days. As of today, we are in a winter wonderland as heavy, wet snow fell and stuck and stayed on tree branches and almost anything else. What ice had formed on some of the bays and along some shorelines disappeared in an all day rain on the last day of November as did the nearly 10 cm of snow that fell early Saturday morning (Nov. 27th). On Saturday, the lake temperature was 5 degrees C. KINMOUNT GAZETTE: This successful little publication is continuing to go strong. Monthly editions are published at the start of each month. Copies are available for November and December at the unused newspaper mailbox at the junction of Highway 121 and the Galway Road. Stop by and pick up this great read! Look for yellow box. WILDLIFE INVENTORY: 11 months have come and gone since this initiative was started. If any Crystal Lake cottager has any additions, please send them in. This is by no means a complete list merely a compilation of four or five volunteer observers. Also, there have been at least three reported sightings of the Eastern Cougar in and around the roads of Crystal Lake. I have not had an opportunity to contact the MNR regarding this topic but hope to before the next newsletter. The sightings of cougars around Crystal Lake are not new. I can remember hearing stories when I was a kid back in the 1960s of a cougar that roamed between Little Silver Lake (Highway 49) and Crystal Lake. Kathy and I were driving out the Galway Road last Sunday morning (Nov. 28th) and had 5 does run in front of our vehicle and the sixth one waited in the ditch. There has also been one big buck (810 points) hanging around the Crazy Horse area of the Galway Road. The deer hunters did not get them all! Note to all cottagers that travel our roads Take care and slow down! CRYSTAL LAKE WILDLIFE INVENTORY 2010 (JANUARY NOVEMBER)
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Bill Lee