This is a popular spot for snakes. Numerous cracks in the rock and holes made by tree roots provide great overnight sleeping areas. I've seen a dozen (garter snakes and water snakes) in the area in just 30 minutes of quiet sitting as they head towards their various...

One could be forgiven for thinking Lake Nipissing’s early April shoreline looked like low tide at the ocean.  Some of the lake bottom had been exposed long enough for the wind to blow the dried sand into small dunes. Numerous near-shore islands were no longer islands....