Slush Pond - Part 1

On our way to the farm, we left Frontier Town and passed through Lake Placid and Saranac Lake. We headed north onto scenic Route 30 and, on a whim, I turned down an unmarked dirt lane leading into the forest. I was surprised to find it completely drivable and continued on it for about 3 miles. Then I stopped and let the dogs out:

Happy dogs, they ran and sniffed and played:

They walked around alone or in little doggy clusters, smelling all the interesting odors:

Wally came with us, but Winky wanted to stay in the car. I lifted him out to pee and then helped him up into the car once more so he could go back to sleep:

The rest of the dogs and I enjoyed our outing:

The "Silly Sisters," Daphne and Clover, continued their usual active play style:

I got them to hold still only momentarily for a photo:

And then we began making our way back to the car. Wally had been lagging behind, and seemed happy to be close to us again:

Dogs are happy about everything, and they were again happy to be back at the car. We all got back inside and began driving through the forest once again:

We stopped, however, when we arrived at Slush Pond, about as remote and pretty a lake as you could find anywhere:

There were floating peat bogs all along the edges of Slush Pond:

So I left Winky and Wally in the car and let the younger dogs out to explore. But I'll post about that tomorrow: