Showing posts with label Lac La Nonne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lac La Nonne. Show all posts

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Lac La Nonne, South Access

On the Thanksgiving weekend, we ventured up to Lac La Nonne and tried out the public boat launch at the very south end of the lake.


The launch has slippery cement ties plus room for a gravel launch on the right. There were pit toilets, picnic tables, lots of parking, and one of those older metal fire boxes (but no fire wood).


Most people had pulled their boats and docks so the lake was deserted until a few fishing boats ventured out after lunch.


We went right off the launch. The shoreline is as above: cabins, trees, and a bit weedy. There was also some late algae still hanging on.


We tried our luck  up the creek on the eastern edge but ran out of water after a few hundred feet so we turned around and made for the island on the eastern shore.


The light was flat and dull so the pictures are dreary. It was mostly a nice paddle with good colour.




We round the island and stopped for lunch on the water.
 





Having toured the eastern bay tot he north of the island we cut over to the western shore.




We followed the western shore back, watching people close down their cabins for the winter. 

All told, this was a so-so paddle. It was dreary and cold (which happens) and the lake, while calm, had a distinct algae-funk. The launch was so-so and it wasn't as nice as our paddle out of the north end last Thanksgiving (better weather). Overall, I probably wouldn't go back in the autumn. Thunder Lake is just a bit further north and is nicer.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Lac La Nonne

Last Thanksgiving, I dragged the family up to Lac La Nonne of a paddle. The weather was amazing and we basically had the lake to ourselves. The water was pretty green.

We put in at the north end of the lake at the nature reserve (signage of the highway was terrible). I'm not sure that this is a public boat launch. It is at the end of a public road, but there was a sign (I noticed on the way out) that said it was a members only space. That may refer to the dock that is usually here. Anyhow, there was a boat launch and a small beach and we went off the beach and headed east.



It was 24 degrees and the water was like glass.


Well, glass with a bit of tarnish, anyhow.




We paddled the northern quarter of the lake and had lunch on the water. There is public boat launch on the west side of the lake at the Willowbend Resort.


I suspected the would be the last family paddle of the year and it was great one.




Overall, I definitely go back and try a different section of the lake. Probably earlier in the year would be better.