Stewart Landing

Stewart Landing is a popular cartop boat launch for West Canada Lake – Lily Lake – Middle Sprite Creek. Just up the road from Stewart Landing Dam on East Canada Lake, there are 4 designated campsites with vehicle access. This is also a popular primative swimming beach and fishing location.

Long dammed but still special – – The Adirondack Almanack

Stewarts Landing: Long dammed but still special – – The Adirondack Almanack

With the water down for the winter, it’s easy to imagine the channel as the Mohawks of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy once saw it. Though the current dam on Stewarts Landing determines the summer level of the water, the top of the upstream rapids appearing when the level goes down is the determining factor for the winter level. This waterway was suitable for canoeing long before any dams were constructed.

What we call Stewarts Landing is the 2 mile stretch of flat water carrying the outflow of Canada and Lily Lakes to a concrete dam. Once called Fish Creek, the stream through and below Stewarts Landing is currently known as Sprite Creek. Below the dam, the unnavigable rocky stream flows into East Canada Creek, which joins the Mohawk and then Hudson Rivers.

Stewart Landing Campsites.

Stewart Landing Campsites !

The Stewart Landing Campsites are tucked on a rough and often muddy dirt road, a little ways back from Stewart Landing.

They aren’t fancy, some of them are a bit closer together then I would like, so I doubt I’d camp there during the holidays or even the summer season.

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But still they’re not a bad place to be, especially if your planning on doing some hiking or paddling on West Canada Lake.

Lazy day

And in the spring when I was there, it was pretty quiet.

But I’m sure on a nice day like this one there would be a lot more people up there.

 Clearing At Stewart Landing

May 14, 2019 Morning

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Six weeks to Primary Day πŸ—³οΈ. With the state’s paid time off to vote law, I’ll have an excuse to get to a work late after voting at the library. Here’s a shocker, cloudy, damp and 42 degrees ☁ in the land of socialist Elsmere. The organic kale socialism type, the kind widely used embraced as long as it doesn’t involve higher taxes on the upper middle class. There is a north-northeast breeze at 5 mph. πŸƒ. The skies will clear tomorrow around 7 am.

I have to fix up the Save the Pine Bush display 🌲for the Lupine Festival this weekend. Yeap that’s happening this weekend and it should be a good event. Hopefully we will have lots of volunteers to join me so I won’t be sitting at the table all alone all day. I’m gathering up photos now, I’ll run off materials for the booth later on this week.

Today will rain, mainly after 3pm. 🌧 High of 49 degrees at 5pm. 20 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 27th. Northeast wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Almost didn’t bring an umbrella but I knew that to be foolish. πŸ’¦ New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 77 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1900.

The sun will set at 8:10 pm with dusk around 8:42 pm, which is one minute and 3 seconds later than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 47 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 6 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely, mainly before 8pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 6am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 30th. Northwest wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It became sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 56 degrees. The record low of 31 occurred back in 1977.

Looking forward to Memorial Day Weekend 😎 especially if it looks like it will be warm and sunny. We might break out of the current pattern by then but who knows. A some point summer will be here. I was thinking that the Gas Up antique tractor festival 🚜 in Gallupville is only about a month away at this point. Might be fun to do that and then hammock camp β›Ί in the wilderness.

One month πŸ“… from now will be Flag Day πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ when the sun will be setting at 8:34 pm with dusk at 9:09 pm. I’ll have to get my big flag out. Hopefully the sun will shine by then.

Swamp and House

May 12, 2019 Morning

Good morning! Happy Mothers Day πŸ‘©β€! Time for some motherly love and Frank Zappa records. 😍 Five weeks to Fathers Day πŸ‘¨. Cloudy, damp and 47 degrees ☁ There is a east breeze at 9 mph. πŸƒ. The skies will clear Wednesday around 11 am. Maybe. That said the 8-14 day outlook suggests warm and dry weather for Memorial Day Weekend but things are subject to change.

Its kind a damp morning as was predicted but the rain seems done. πŸ’¦ Laying back in the hammock, had some eggs 🍳, warmed up my hands by the heater. I did turn on the truck for a while because the starting battery πŸ”‹was around 12.51 volts. Probably not required but I’d rather be safe than sorry.

In a bit I’m going to finish taking down camp and head fishing. 🎣 Later on I will probably go for a walk down to Rockwood Lake then head home. I think the rain is done for the day here. β˜”

Today will have a chance of light rain. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 49 degrees at 2pm. 19 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 27th. East wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1881. There was a dusting of snow in 1996.❄

The sun will set at 8:12 pm with dusk around 8:45 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ At sunset, look for clouds ☁ and temperatures around 44 degrees. There will be a east breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 35 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 13 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of rain. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 40 degrees at 1am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 24th. East wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 48 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 2005.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Fathers Day πŸ‘¨ when the sun will be setting at 8:40 pm with dusk at 9:16 pm. On that day in 2018, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 84 and 50 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 78 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1967. I could see a warm June after this rather cold and wet spring.

Patroon Island Bridge Reflects Onto the River