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MnLakeBum wrote: Sat May 11, 2019 7:13 pm A couple more.

BIGGUSBLOCKUS wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 6:35 am Great setup Bum. We went to Gull Lake all the time when I was a kid. Curious about the Iowa registration on your Marker One. Are you secretly an Iowan?

Ytmsn wrote: Sat May 11, 2019 8:46 am

MnLakeBum wrote: Sat May 11, 2019 6:20 am 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...

Ytmsn wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 7:10 am Jeesh Tusc. Now I have to go eat something. I'd be as big as a house if I worked in that kind of environment!

Ytmsn wrote: Sat May 11, 2019 11:16 pm Pretty freakin cool Bum. Pretty freakin cool..

We've had soo much rain here. My wife and I were comparing our woods today to a medieval forest where we're building our wedding venue. At least that's what it feels like! Here is the "back entrance" to the ceremony area with our big white wolf dog laying in the trail.

cmattj wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 8:51 am

Ytmsn wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 7:10 am Jeesh Tusc. Now I have to go eat something. I'd be as big as a house if I worked in that kind of environment!

Awesome pics T!

I’ll volunteer with Ytmsn to run the outside BBQ for tri-tip sammmitches. ( short lived career I’m sure).