Interesting finds in Zones 15 & 16

July 25th and patrolling another sunny morning with very calm winds – so perfect. Started at bottom of Zone 15 and found nothing unusual other than in grid 485 where there is still the amazingly thick layer of Aquatic Moss, now at least over 1.5’ in one section. Scattered within the moss was a good mix of Elodea, red Water Naiad (pic attached), Thin-leaf Pondweed, and wispy strands of Floating bladderwort. Naturally, a fine coating of Filamentous algae was everywhere.

Met up with a solitary Red Water mite bobbing about.

Moving up into Zone 16, I spied Jim +Vicki Proulx swinging into Picnic Island Cove from the northern side. I passed into Duck Cove and found an increasingly thick layer of various pondweeds, Spatterdocks, Spike rush, some Red pondweed (pic attached) and a few tiny balloons of nontoxic cyanobacteria, Rivularia, enveloping ends of slender pondweeds (pic attached.)

Outside of Duck Cove was a floating strand of Water Marigold by grid 518.

Nothing of note was growing around the few rocks in grids 506 and 501, at the mouth of Picnic Island Cove.

Common Water Primrose ............. Red Pondweed ............... Rivularia blob