Carillon Point

Manuel and I went down to Carillon Point today around 10:30.
it was a kinda chilly morning.
we went into the water and my watch only had to adjust itself one degree to calculate the water temperature at 71 degrees.

we headed out from the most southern park, i guess the map calls it Houghton Park,
and we went south of there to that pier area.
the water was rather shallow even as we went out further from land.
i think the deepest depth i gauged was 23 feet.

there was just a lot of milfoil and other plant life between the park and the pier.
We saw a few tires and the stumps of pilings that used to support a pier.
about 50 feet out from the pier that's standing now, we found about a 100 foot-long chunk of an old pier that used to occupy the area. It was crazy, it just kept going as far as you could see.
we followed it from end to end, coming up for breaths every now and then.
we also found half of an old, skinny toilet on one side of the sunken pier, and the other half on the other side.

there were a few schools of fish that hung out in the area. they were about 5 inces long, mostly yellow looking (hard to tell underwater) with vertical tiger striping.
we saw some clams and muscles as well.

there was an unusually large amount of stuff far out from the pier, my guess is that the older pier stuck out a lot further than the one that exists today. from the pictures you can see what we found.

overall a cool snork, but i'm finding out that my camera is slowing me down a bit.
not only to take pictures, but to be cautious of its wellbeing.
i can't just go down and grab that metal gate like Manuel did today.
oh well, i'm sure everyone enjoys seeing our trip rather than just reading about it.
and i know i enjoy more to share my experiences visually.