Good evening! Final night in the Finger Lakes. 🌃

There was a thunderstorm ⛈ way to the north so the sunset was a bust but overall a pretty nice relaxed day. But I can’t say the same thing about the peanut butter cup sundae 🥜 that I’m eating from the Glen Dairy Bar.

Mostly cloudy ⛅ and 67 degrees at the Clute Park. Calm wind. The dew point is 54 degrees. To bad the sunset was such a bummer.

Today I spent the bulk of the day hiking in Connecticut Hill Wildlife Management Area. 🚶🏻 A lot of rough back woods roads and a lot of wildlife to see. 🐦 🐸 The forest demonstration area was pretty neat to check out for differences of birds and wildlife. All the roads were very rough, I ended up locking it into 4×4 low and on the steepest and roughest of hills I locked it in first gear, ⚙ which maxes put at 5 mph. A lot of very steep roads there which are badly eroded from the rain. There was this one vey steep hill on Todd Road where the kayak 🛶 barely cleared a downed tree – the trees was so low the CB antenna hit. I was sure I was going to have to back up the hill or take the kayak off but I went slow and cleared.

As planned I kayaked 🛶 in Bad Indian Swamp but only got 3/4 mile from the old Airport Road along the drainage canal and part of a channel before it got to shallow. 🐦 Lots of birds including multiple great blue herons and ones I need to look up in Merlin. Also hiked around a bit of the nature trail including crossing that crazy looking bridge. Bugs were real bad 🐜 so I didn’t stay long. It’s fine, time was getting late.

I got a delicious peanut butter cup sundae 🍧at the Glen Dairy Bar and watched the sunset or lack thereof along Seneca Lake. Now it’s getting dark and time to head back to camp. ⛺ I want to have dinner and then may hike to Foster Pond especially if it clears out later. 🌃

I am already thinking about tomorrow. 🤔 I am leaning towards taking down camp slowly in the morning and then going to Taughanock State Park until the rain picks up in the afternoon.⛈️ I’m leaning towards taking NY 26 from Whitney Point to Pine Woods and US 20 the rest of the way home, that way I can see a new route 🚘 along the Otselic River and avoid driving 65 mph in the rain with the kayak on the roof along Interstate 88. I like taking new roads whenever I can. 🗺