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.
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.
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!
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.
On Sunday, I hiked back to Cascade Falls which is at one end of Cascade Lake in Pigeon Lake Wilderness. Not the most impressive waterfall ever, but after the previous day's rain, quite a bit of water was coming over the falls.