Sailing and Nature-watching on a Midwestern Lake
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Uploaded by Dulcimerea on Jul 28, 2011
This 59-minute video needs editing to remove several rough spots, but efforts I made to edit the film seemed to hurt its effect.
To watch it requires some mental stillness and considerable patience, but I promise that those who enjoy the things of the natural world will be rewarded.
The original 2 tapes were made using a Canon Gl2, which is a very nice camera with a 20x optical zoom. (I wish I still had it). This video is the two 30-minute DV tapes put together. They document a few days on and off a a sailboat on Clinton Lake, in Douglas county, Kansas, in 2005.
The lake is about 6,500 acres (depending on pool elevation), which is big, but not that big. Too small for motorboats IMO but there they are.
A lot of the video takes place in the western end of the lake, where wildlife is more accessible and most importantly, few motorboats go because of the very shallow water and the snags of old trees and branches.
My boat is a home-built "canoe-yawl", 20', designed by Steve Redmond, the design being named "Elver".
The tanbark-colored sails were custom made by Douglas Fowler up in New York State.
This particular boat I named "Epona" after Link's pony in "Ocarina of Time".
The soundtrack is entirely the soundtrack of the original tapes with nothing added or subtracted. The one musical part of the soundtrack is the sound of a portable CD player on the boat, playing a song by the inimitable Alison Krauss. I felt that the song fit the day really well, so I left it in the video, although I might have to take it out, due to the rules.
So sit back and enjoy the lake and its flora and fauna, but with no worry of getting wet, muddy, or bitten.
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@kimblepie Wow! hi Kim! Thank you.
Dulcimerea 7 months ago
Hi Gib.Beautiful.Would like to be there too.
kimblepie 7 months ago