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Another Summer at Lake Wallenpaupack, PA
Baby fish begin leaping to catch a net of bugs that hover just above the water’s surface, and when they fall it looks like rain. Their silver bellies catch the light in paparazzi flashes about me. They do this at the same time every year—just like the baby toads that hop across the beach, and the tiger swallowtail butterflies, punctually filling the lake bushes with their delicate yellow wings each summer.
I’m glad I crashed my drone into a tree.
A couple weeks ago I bought a drone to expand my capacity for capturing the beautiful places I travel to. Only days after getting it, I got it stuck in the top of a 70-foot tree. Just when I thought I’d never see it again, something beautifully unexpected happened.
A Taste of Rivendell: Watkins Glen State Park, NY
The serpent ravine bloats and shrinks in billowing pockets hollowed out of the rock by years of erosion, smooth as the sugar of a well-licked lollipop. Each bowl is filled with emerald green pools caked with foam. Clattering echoes bounce between them amid the distant roar of rushing waves as I peer over the treacherous rim.
The Wallenpaupack Lake Trail
The Wallenpaupack Lake Trail is a gentle, three-mile trip along the Big Lake. The packed gravel path is an out-and-back route that heads over the dike and past the Lake Wallenpaupack Visitors Center. Park in the lot near the intersection of Routes 6 and 507 to take this easy, lakeside walk.
Kayaking to Epply Island
There is a small island in Lake Wallenpaupack, visible from my family’s cabin, called Epply Island. My best friend and I decided to take a kayak trip to it for a picnic day while she was visiting me during my two-month stay there to escape the craziness of 2020. We explored, did some yoga, ate lunch, and tried out her mermaid tail. When some storm clouds rolled in, we headed back with sore muscles and happy hearts.
The Paupack Blueberry Farm
The Paupack Blueberry Farm is a local pick-your-own blueberry farm in Paupack, Pennsylvania. It has 3 fields open to to the public and homemade baked goods made fresh every morning! I highly recommend their oatmeal squares.
Jacobsburg State Park
Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center is a 1,168-acre Pennsylvania state park near Wind Gap, in Bushkill Township, Northampton County in Pennsylvania, in the United States. The Jacobsburg National Historic District is almost entirely surrounded by the park.