The temperature hit 80 degrees so we had to enjoy the weather and take our boat out on the river. We launched at the boat launch here at the refuge which dumps you into a back water of Martinez Lake. We boated through the lake and then up the river a short ways to the entrance to Ferguson Lake. This is a lake that is a back water along the California side of the river. The water is high now in the river but even so the deepest spot we found was about 30 feet deep. Boating in these backwater lakes is a challenge when the water is murky. Water is being released from the dam to the north of us at Parker which stirs up the muck so you can't see the tree stumps and other obstacles. We barely missed one large tree trunk and the boat lightly bumped into a submerged object but luckily it didn't catch the motor. We usually go pretty slow in this kind of water especially in a new lake.
As we were boating into Ferguson we spied this racoon, in broad daylight, up in this tree that had no leaves. Hmmm - was he trying to get up high so he could see where he was? I also got a good picture of Castle Dome peak from the lake. We boated up into the lake far enough that at one point we were on the California side of the refuge and could see our RV and the refuge buildings off in the distance.
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