Elk City Lake (reprise)

Back in southeast Kansas again, I again did a short walk on the Table Mound Trail. Rather than follow the bluffline section, however, I struck south and followed the trail down near the lake, then walked the shoreline to the end of a point. One and a half miles out, and that much back (3 miles total).

I'd been to Walmart and picked up some tasty Italian summer sausage and a roll of gouda. I wished I had more time to sit in the breeze and shade of the point, watching the fishermen trolling.

I retain my general distaste for USACE reservoirs: although it can be interesting to walk on exposed, formerly subterranean geology, it doesn't seem like it's a healthy thing. Shale-stone beaches and hot, stagnant lakewater aren't lovely.



I suppose the damage is done, though. There's no way that, after permanently flooding these Mid-southern and Mid-western drainage basins, they could ever recover, leastwise not in many generations.

Ecological opinions aside, Elk City Lake is a great place to spend an afternoon walking.