Poor Island

We just returned from our camping trip on one of the little islands on Lake George in New York State. This island is about 125 by 225 feet and it lost 26 trees from a freak local thunderstorm last month. All of the large tree are gone. They either snapped in half, half way up the tree or they where simply tipped over as the soil is so shallow.

When we arrived on the island, I was struck with how different it looked and it took me a moment to grasp the violence that occurred here. One tree was blown apart by a lightning strike. I am glad that I was not camping they on that day!

Now all the old 100 year old plus trees were cleared out, but almost all of them were rotted inside and really should have been cut down years ago. Also, with some of the smaller trees now in full sunlight, their time now has arrived and they now will be making the shadow instead of living under one. Thankfully this storm happened outside of the busy camping season and nature must had felt that a little pruning was in order.

I think that it will be interesting to visit this Island in ten years to see how it is progressing. I hope to visit it every year for a long time.