May 2019....pics!

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Sheesh.

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Family friend's place in 1000 Islands. 2nd year in a row.

[Big Block Power]

Family friend's place in 1000 Islands. 2nd year in a row.

At least it's above water

[jhnmdahl]

Family friend's place in 1000 Islands. 2nd year in a row.

At least it's above water

Only one of the thousand, from the picture...

[Big Block Power]

Family friend's place in 1000 Islands. 2nd year in a row.

At least it's above water

Only one of the thousand, from the picture...

True! Good point

[tgrace98]

Sunset on table rock! My happy place

[Big Block Power]

You deserve it tgrace98.

[AsLan7]

Sunset on table rock! My happy place

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Loce the helm dash display tg98.

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[NautiGirl]

Sunset on table rock! My happy place

Super Jelly!

Nice pic!

[MnLakeBum]

Sun is up at 6:16 am - I love the fact that it is light out for nearly 15 hours already. I’ll have pictures later of both boats in the water. Hopefully by 1 pm today!

[Ytmsn]

Sun is up at 6:16 am - I love the fact that it is light out for nearly 15 hours already. I’ll have pictures later of both boats in the water. Hopefully by 1 pm today!

Bum that looks beautiful!

I should have been doing the same thing, drinking my coffee and watching the sun rise in front of the fire at our lakehouse but our lake is flooded. So early this morning I was sitting in my chair drinking coffee listening to the rain hit our skylight. Grrr

I remember you saying your lake level hardly fluctuates, so I went off on a 45 minute tangent trying to learn the how and why on Minnesota lake levels.

The first thing I learned is never trust Google. Minnesota is NOT the state with the most lakes, even though a Google search says it is? Ask Google which state has the most lakes and it will say MN ( billed as 10,000, but there are actually 11.500) yet Wisconsin has 15,000 lakes and Alaska has three MILLion? Pretty sure Alaska is still a state..
So MN must do a better job of marketing.

I never could find a real answer to water level management. I read about the MN Dept of Nature Resources (DNR) and their management and I read more about glaciers carving out all the natural lakes up north, and how rain and snow may affect levels by a couple feet, but outflow is not managed? Again, I dont trust my Google answer.

In our part of the country all of the lakes were built on a river for flood control. OK is the State with the most man-made lakes, and we are covered in man-made ponds, all as a result of the dust bowl days. But all the lakes were built on rivers for flood control. I discovered OK has more shoreline than both the east and west coasts combined. (Again, good marketing) Sounds impressive until I learned that MN has 90,000 moles of shoreline, more than CA, FL and HI combined. Wow...

I still have not found an answer on how Minnesota lake levels are managed when you get excessive rain or snow fall. I had to climb out of the rabbit hole...

[Big Block Power]

Yea really our lake is up maybe 1.5 feet. The dams have been open since the ice melted. Last week. Lol really our pages even up north change but not that much either. Lots of our water comes from up North then into our lake chain then up the fox River into The bay of Green Bay and into lake Michigan. Yes the fox River flows north

[cmattj]

Interesting Ytmsn! I’ve been learning as well as constant level lakes are Usually tied to hydro electric and monitored very well. Fixed docks like we’ve been seeing are awesome. The water at the edge of the flat non sloped property like mnb and Liquids pics are great.
We have to have everything floating as we have tides even though we’re 60 ish miles from the ocean .
Here’s what I look at all the time. Here’s today’s tide chart. Pretty mild.

[MnLakeBum]

Sun is up at 6:16 am - I love the fact that it is light out for nearly 15 hours already. I’ll have pictures later of both boats in the water. Hopefully by 1 pm today!

Bum that looks beautiful!

I should have been doing the same thing, drinking my coffee and watching the sun rise in front of the fire at our lakehouse but our lake is flooded. So early this morning I was sitting in my chair drinking coffee listening to the rain hit our skylight. Grrr

I remember you saying your lake level hardly fluctuates, so I went off on a 45 minute tangent trying to learn the how and why on Minnesota lake levels.

The first thing I learned is never trust Google. Minnesota is NOT the state with the most lakes, even though a Google search says it is? Ask Google which state has the most lakes and it will say MN ( billed as 10,000, but there are actually 11.500) yet Wisconsin has 15,000 lakes and Alaska has three MILLion? Pretty sure Alaska is still a state..
So MN must do a better job of marketing.

I never could find a real answer to water level management. I read about the MN Dept of Nature Resources (DNR) and their management and I read more about glaciers carving out all the natural lakes up north, and how rain and snow may affect levels by a couple feet, but outflow is not managed? Again, I dont trust my Google answer.

In our part of the country all of the lakes were built on a river for flood control. OK is the State with the most man-made lakes, and we are covered in man-made ponds, all as a result of the dust bowl days. But all the lakes were built on rivers for flood control. I discovered OK has more shoreline than both the east and west coasts combined. (Again, good marketing) Sounds impressive until I learned that MN has 90,000 moles of shoreline, more than CA, FL and HI combined. Wow...

I still have not found an answer on how Minnesota lake levels are managed when you get excessive rain or snow fall. I had to climb out of the rabbit hole...

The lakes here are almost all natural lakes and there are so many in the northern part of the state that the water has lots of places to go. The county we are in, Cass, has 896 lakes. The adjacent counties both have more than a thousand lakes. The high/low since 1950 on our lake is 17” but the last 25 years the high/low is 8”.

You have to dig a bit deeper with the Wisconsin vs. Minnesota number of lakes. I’ve done that because I won a bet in college way back in 1986 - lakes 10 acres or more Wisconsin has around 8,000 and Minnesota has 11,800. Wisconsin has no size limit when counting lakes. Minnesota counts only those over 10 acres. By Wisconsin standards counting all the small “ponds”, Minnesota has more than 20,000 lakes that cover 2.6 million acres vs 1 million acres for Wisconsin. Either way, the lake we are on is one of the 25 largest lakes in Minnesota and it’s a bit of heaven on earth to us! It’s damn glad to be here again. We got both boats in the water today and are going out for a little cocktail cruise very soon.