Dinner on Cranberry Lake

Monday evening, Roger, Libby, Russ, and I met up at Annette and Sherm's house in Wanakena with Nancy and Lisa, our Cedar Key neighbors who live in Kingston Ontario at this time of year. We went out the Oswegatchie River on the Craigs' boat, to Cranberry Lake. On the river, just past their house, rock cliffs squeeze the river into The Narrows. Although it then opens wide about where you pass by the Ranger School, there is still a narrow, marked channel caused by hundreds of trees that died and fell into the water as the damn caused the water to gradually back up, create the lake, and flood the forested river banks. The fallen trees, even when removed, left navigational hazards to be avoided. Thus the long, circuitous channel. 

 We cruised for a while, in warm, gentle breezes, then stopped for appetizers. Roger and Libby brought a fantastic white wine from Maggie's Vineyards to pair with our cheese from Meg's Cheese to You shop . . . Kunik from the Nettle Meadow Farm on the other side of the Adirondacks, Tallegio from Italy, and Colston Bassett Stilton from Neal's Yard in the UK. The cruised continued, past the camps and the Cranberry Lake Biological Station, a SUNY environmental research facility accessible only by boat. When we stopped next, again just floating out n the middle of the lake, we had dinner .. . broccoli salad, roasted corn, and sausage.

 

 

 The weather was perfect. We did not even need jackets . . . on a boat, in the evening, on an Adirondack lake! Pretty amazing.

 

 

Back at the house, Sherm, Roger, Lisa, and Nancy went to see a house for sale in Wanakena. Loved it, as they did, nobody bought it. Instead, they returned for blueberry-peach cobbler and ice cream.

A  perfect Adirondack evening.