On a hot summer day I parked at the gate area by Lac le Jeune and then hauled my kayak down to the lakeshore.    We have to lift our boats over a fence now, then carry them about 40m down to the lakeshore, then do a muddy launch among the cattails and bulrushes.

A paddle around the lakeshore is about 3.5 km.    There is a lot to see, so an easy pace works well for this lake.

On this day there were lots of western painted turtles, ducks and ducklings, geese, loons, blackbirds, marsh wrens, killdeer, and spotted sandpipers.    A few of the paddling moments are captured in this short YouTube video:

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