Box Lake

3 osprey hunting
lots of swallows eating bugs over the water
campground improvements
camper arrived - 2 people
Park Hosts are set up and and ready to go

no ice on the lake
a couple of campsites were leveled and large tree stump was pulled out from trees cut down last fall
quite a few mostly white with a little black birds out on lake, too far away to identify

The lake was frozen. There was bit of water showing at the edge of the dock near the shore. I did my testing there. Being lake is frozen no depth. There was a person out ice fishig about 150 ft from shore. They said they caught 2 small rainbow and 4 small brookies.

There is very little snow. Surprised we could drive in, a skiff of snow on the road.
The water depth was taken about 5 ft from the end of the dock, the front of the dock is under the snowy soft ice. there was snowy ice on the lake with a few open areas and a few spots around the shore did not have ice. There were two golden eye birds and 2 other gray birds.

The water is brown, which was surprise to me, it looks like silt. The water is clear about 10" in (not in depth) on the shore, then after that you can see silt on the rocks for a short bit then can only see silt, off the end of the dock you cannot see the bottom and you normally can when I have been there. There were ducks on the lake further out and small gray bird on shore. There is some ice film on the lake further out. There was a small amount of algae on the wood at end of the dock that is under the water a bit.

Saw mother grizzly bear and cub on up side of Box Mountain when driving in on FSR. Saw again when leaving parking lot by the dock, about 50 yds away, looked at us, then kept going.

3 adults and 2 kids on dock
2 adults and both kids fishing
youngest caught a rainbow trout, it was beautiful, then released it
the Dad and two kids went out in a small boat with a little electric motor

2 wet dogs, thinking they were swimming. 4 people sitting on the dock, one child who was wet, thinking they were swimming. Water was clear though. Across lake I can see green and yellow foliage. A person who had been kayaking came in and then swam. There was a shore bird.

Park host said that the fish had started to bit again after a month and a half. I told him the temperature of the lake was cooler this time.

Water testing is done from the dock at Box Lake. There was a young boy throwing a ball in the water for his dog, off the dock. A young boy had been fishing off the dock. An aluminium paddle boat was being taken out of the water when we arrived.

Testing is done from the dock. This lake does not allow gas powered boats.