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Andy Arthur

Already it's the second half of the month. 🍁 September is rapidly fading into October, with lots of color and cooler weather for the coming weeks and months. I'm so busy these days, but look forward to many adventures in changing seasons.

Camping at the Finger Lakes National Forest on August 3rd 2024

Day 9. Cayuta Lake, Connecticut Hill WMA and then Watkins Glen later. Yesterday was spent at Cornell, the bird sanctuary, Botanic Gardens, Arboretum and of course the dairy bar! Rainy evening, finished off the clams and sweet corn. Things are muddy, coming to a close as today's the last full day in the Finger Lakes.

Camping at the Finger Lakes National Forest on August 2nd, 2024

Today I'm heading to Ithaca for the Sapsucker Woods and the Cornell Botanical Gardens. Bringing my kayak though I'm expecting rain and storms by afternoon. Yesterday I went up to Penn Yan via the Keuka Outlet Trail and also Geneva, floated on Seneca Lake for a while and explored Geneva on my mountain bike.

Camping at the Finger Lakes National Forest on August 1st 2024

It was a lazy Wednesday with a lot of reading 📖 and relaxing, floating in the tube on Foster Pond ⭕, I went for a ride along No Tan-Tanko Trail slinging cow manure and watched the sunset, listening to the bullfrogs and crickets and cows 🐮 along Ballard Pond until fairly late into the night. Today it's off to Penn Yan via the Keuka Outlet trail!

Camping at the Finger Lakes National Forest – July 31, 2024

A quiet day ahead as I plan to stay around camp, as the morning started out wet and it will be showering on and off all day. I want to spend the day riding my mountain bike, laying back in the hammock with an e-book or two, then later on floating in my tube on Foster Pond. Couldn't get clams yesterday but that's fine.