Sproat Lake Paddle - June 16, 2020 by Bob and Elaine

Seven kayaks and one canoe: (9) paddlers set off from the launching area at the Sproat Lake Provincial Park at 10AM

and soon arrived at the famous petroglyphs along the shoreline. It was a challenge to name the types of carvings depicted in the rock wall.

Continuing along the shore, past the Sproat River outlet, we passed many residences of various types and sizes. Most of the houses have docks and we saw many boats, canoes, kayaks and sea doos. Apparently the weekend is full of water skiers, paddlers and other water activities. Saw a Merganser hen with about 8 or 9 little ones following closely behind.

A quick paddle around an island and we then-headed back to the Park for our lunch and restroom break.  A couple of paddlers had to leave after lunch, but the rest of us continued along the shore and our first encounter was with  several turtles sunning themselves on logs protruding out of the water.  

Further on we passed the Mars water bombers on the shore...looks like they are not going to be flying soon.

 

We continued to follow the shore seeing many more houses, docks and boats of all kinds.

Our return paddle saw us arrive at the launch site at 2PM.  We paddled roughly 3 hours total. Very good for our first excursion with the group this year. Welcomed some new paddlers and hope to see them for our next paddle in a couple of weeks.