Anyone who has been following my blog is becoming extremely familiar with Seneca Lake. My parents own lakefront and live across the street, on top of which theirs is the last house before State Park land begins, creating the feeling that they own miles of beach instead of just a certain amount of feet. And since I spend a lot of time at their house, it's inevitable for it to feature largely in my blogs and for my camera to be packed full of pictures of the big blue expanse.
Once upon a time I took this beautiful place for granted, but once I had spent a significant time away I could hardly imagine how I ever did that and vowed never to again. A vow that hasn't been hard to keep, possibly one of the few signs I've shown of wisdom with age :)
Being nearly forty miles long, between two and three and a half miles wide, with a depth of nearly seven hundred feet, it is a giant of a lake. In fact next to the Great Lakes it's one of the largest in the whole of the US.
Today, as the title promised, I will be taking you on a photo journey with myself and my mom as we pedal our way down to the shore. Down at the bottom I've added in a few pictures of my kids taking the boat out for a spin...and a short video of them with a friend, using it as a floating dock.
Destination, The Point
My childhood fort
A cove featured in a lot of imaginary tales of adventure when I was young
The point
Turning around
Homeward bound view
I'm a beginner with the recording feature on this camera, and what I learned from this video clip is that the more I zoom, the shakier it becomes. I do manage to smooth it out some about halfway through-
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How nice to have property on lake from ESPECIALLY like you said at State Park boundaries so its almost like you have the whole state park!!!
You really did DreemIT!
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It is!
Aww, thank you!
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Your welcome!
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That looks like a little piece of heaven! One year here and I only found you now?!!!
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It is, I have to admit :) I know, actually I recently have seen you commenting, on son of satire and I think meesterboom. I like your style ;)
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Extremely familiar? It's like we live there as well! Haha! That balance of blues and greens, oh my word! My heart felt like it melted and was drifted away by the waves. I could just smell the fresh air and feel the crisp air. Ahhh! That's the life!
Ethan's so big now! Haha I talk as if I've known his since he was but a babe. He looks like Zoe's big brother now haha! Oh, and a Mama Dreemit sighting! Always a win with her :D
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It's crazy how Ethan seems to grow a little every month! I swear he's going to top six foot this year, before he even makes it to fifteen. He definitely looks like her big brother, especially since she's also gotten weight conscious, so she's tiny in comparison, He's nearly eight inches taller and a hundred pounds heavier!
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Jeez! Wait, I think he's taller than me now haha! A hund-- okay, I won't... I don't even feel bad about being smaller. Every other kid has grown taller than me, so I don't know why I keep expecting things to be different haha!
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Wow, it really is stunning. I half thought your folks were loaded from previous posts and owned a vast swathe of land by the lake!
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Ha! Yeah, a lot of people think they must be, the truth is they're just some of the luckiest people who ever lived. The previous owners sold the house and lakefront without going through a realtor for a ridiculously low price. They were an elderly couple who had lived in it for fifty years and just either didn't have a clue or didn't care to find out what it was truly worth. On top of this we lived on Long Island at the time, about thirty minutes from the Hamptons, and forty from Manhattan, and even though the house we lived in was tiny, as was the property, any home on Long Island is prime real estate especially at that time, so they sold that place for three times as much as they bought this one.
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That sounds like a fantastic series of events. Its great when things actually work out in a good way. Makes you think that maybe the universe isnt a cold harsh unloving place :OD
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So nice to remember childhood places where we used to hangout!
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I actually still visit my childhood fort quite often. It's shielded by trees on one side and state park on the other, and the stone roof is a perfect place to sit and write without being disturbed :)
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I guess many of us take things for granted when we are used to something but most of the time we don't realise what great value a place like this has. I'd love to live somewhere near here but I guess me being reliant and raised in a metropolis doesn't help.
These are some beautiful photographs @dreemit. I think I now envy where your parents live since I wouldn't mind going out on a pedal boat, soaking up the beauty around me.
The video is a bit shaky at the beginning but you do stabilise near the end. My hands shake so much when I recording things, even when I'm not zoomed in most of the time haha
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Before my dad became handicapped we had a speedboat as well, they sold it about four years ago. I've been considering fixing up the boat hoist and buying one to put in it. Might be my goal for next summer...and some jet skiis :) We had a jet ski actually, alas something was wrong with the engine when we went to fire it up this summer. We have seasonal businesses and winter is the lucrative time of year for us, wish we would have known about the engine trouble when we had the money to fix it, but yeah, definitely going to pick up another one of those this year.
If we do get a boat, there will be posts about water skiing next summer...and if I have my way, para-sailing too :)
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Looks a lot of fun nit too much water for my liking lol :)
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It definitely is :) See my comment to @arckrai for the fun we'll hopefully be having with it next year.
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Beautiful Senny!
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Indeed!
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