Your mom and I got to spend a day at the Dells with favorite daughter Kelly along with Grant and Mitchell. Kelly rented a condo for the week and it is located right on Lake Delton. It is August and perfect lake weather.
As I sat on the second story balcony watching all the tourists enjoying the lake with their jet skis, pontoon boats, fishing boats, speed boats, and ski boats, it reminded me of Crystal Lake on holiday weekends. Memorial Day, the 4th of July and Labor Day were particularly memorable. All the amateurs come out.
I think you are supposed to go around the smaller lakes in a counter-clockwise direction. Not at Lake Delton.
You are supposed to veer right as you approach an oncoming boat. I don't think they know that at Lake Delton. There were lots of jet skis playing chicken!
You are supposed to give any craft that you pass at least 50 feet of room. Not at Lake Delton.
Then in all this madness, you get a couple of guys that think they can drop anchor and "fish". What fish in their right mind would bite surrounded by all the chaos?
I think you have to be 12 years old to drive any craft. Not at Lake Delton.
And then my absolute favorite, someone decides to swim in the area of the boat traffic lanes. Of course their tiny heads with the "pea brains" will be seen by a boat doing 50 mph.
Actually all this disorganized action was very entertaining and I don't think anybody got hurt. As the water sloshed against the shoreline, for a brief moment, I thought I missed the insanity.
And then it was time to leave the water-side bungalow. I remembered why Crystal Lake Advancement Association imposed a 35 mph speed limit, continued to prohibit speed boats on Sunday and have steady patrols by the Sheboygan Sheriff Department. It is because when people go in the the water, they go NUTS!
The Dells was a fun trip. A special thanks to Kelly, Grant and Mitchell for entaining boring Grandparents for a day.
Love,
Dad
Posted by deborah on August 5, 2005 10:34 AM
Sounds so much different then my lake experience this past weekend. Reminders of Crystal Lake also. Between Rhinelander and Eagle River lays a chain of lakes. My other half own a cottage on the chain. It was total quiet. Reading out on the deck, listening to cds, the lap of water on the shore and against the boat. The smell. Cottage smell, the the lake air. The sounds of the speed boats, jet skies, and then the fish jumping. Great memories. Miss it! But was given the chance to grasp alittle of what was in the past.