by Eric Aaland | Apr 9, 2011 | Events, Photos |
Some photos taken last Thursday of Lake Pepin just after sunrise. The river is high, but finally ice free, yippee! You can see the current flood level here. The Mississippi River is expected to keep rising for the next couple of days another foot at the Lake City...
by Eric Aaland | Apr 1, 2011 | Events, General, Maps, Photos |
Some more photos of Lake Pepin taken near Lake City Marina Thursday 3/31/2011. Also one photo of the area just south of Central Point taken the same day. As you can see there is still quite a bit of ice, but it is disappearing slowly. The flood level seams to be...
by Eric Aaland | Mar 27, 2011 | Aurion, Photos |
I drove by Lake Pepin on Friday 3/26 and stopped at the foot of the lake to take some photos of the area where I feared there might be some ice jams. So far it is looking well. The ice is receding upstream as it were. The river is up about four feet since my last post...
by Eric Aaland | Mar 6, 2011 | Photos |
by Eric Aaland | Feb 12, 2011 | Photos |
Here are a couple of photos from last summer. Today it reached 34 degrees which I believe is the warmest temperatures we’ve had since last November. Naturally my thoughts turned to the coming sailing season. We are sooooo looking forward to launch day, which is as of...
by Eric Aaland | Feb 4, 2011 | Capt. Puffy Pants, Photos |
Searching by Captain Puffy Searching gull on high Twisting circles in the sky With dipping wing And feathers white Turn and drop In summers delight I needed a little mid-winter pick-me-up, as I’m sure a lot of us northern sailors do. Hope you don’t mind me trying my...
