Little pond:
After both good and bad navigation choices, we found ourselves by this little pond. OK, it was certainly cute. But was it the
pond we were looking for? The outflow end had a berm, which indicated this
was yet another artificial pond; perhaps at one point it was a nice wet seepage site. I clambered to the water's edge and
looked for carnivores. Nothing, although the Sphagnum here and there was encouraging. We followed
the inevitable
circumnavigating lake trail and popped down to the water's edge from time to time to look for plants. While we found
no carnivorous plants, we did get sliced and scratched nicely by some aggressive and heavily armed noncarnivores.
I was still quietly optimistic we were at the right site because from one viewpoint I saw that a distant
part of the shoreline had a number of
monitoring stakes and flags. I guessed that those flags were probably for something rare, oh, perhaps something like Federally
Endangered pitcher plants!
