So yesterday (September 11), on short notice and with no real commitment to the project, I repeated my feat from 2016 and rowed the perimeter of Geneva Lake. Elapsed time was almost exactly the same; I started about fifteen minutes later (in spite of a desire for an EARLY start), and had about fifteen fewer minutes of daylight to work with, so I spent an extra half hour in darkness. Given that the conditions were PERFECT by that time, (check out how smooth the water was on the approach to the Linn Pier ramp at the end of the trip) this was not a bad thing. I took a lot of photos, but they all had bad horizon lines; the sunset shot, taken somewhere between Lake Geneva and Bigfoot Beach, was one of the better ones.
Sunset over Geneva Lake, September 11, 2018. Taken from the water in the vicinity of Mannings Point, about a mile from downtown Lake Geneva, WI.
You’d think that, more than an hour after sunset, you wouldn’t have to wait in line for the boat ramp, but you’d be wrong. If I hadn’t been exhausted, I MIGHT have been able to scoot up the ramp before this fellow’s partner came back with the trailer, but after eight hours on the water, it wasn’t going to happen. So I backed up and took this shot while I waited…