My Pepere bought the land in 1958 and built a camp on it.
There were tree stumps littering in the water as a Dam was built that raised the water level of the lake. He went to the hardware store and bought dynamite and blasting caps. His brother in law who used to be a log driver on the river and used dynamite to clear logjams gave him instructions.
He went in and blew up the stumps.... all perfectly normal and acceptable in 1958....
He then went up in the winter and shoveled yards upon yards of beach sand on the ice to give a nice packed sand surface to walk on when swimming...
No icky oozy mud underneath. 6-12 inches packed coarse sand he harvested from a glacial moraine sandpit within a quarter mile of the camp... Again, all perfectly legal and acceptable back then…
Currently there is about 4 inches of oozy sediment over that sand, abundant freshwater clams... and this Erio is just carpeting the swimming area.. all on the plates came up as I reached 4 feet underwater and pulled 1 handful of it.
Lake water, <1 kh, 7 Gh, Ph 6.2
Degassed ph 6.8
Water temp cool enough to make dunking your midsection something you know you will have to brace for, but fine once you are wet. Best guess, low to mid 70s.
I excavated holes in the sand and put in some aquasoil before planting and covering over it. This is in a new plant farm with no livestock.
My tank water is darn close to lake water.
Lets see how these do…
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