Sheridan Lake Summer Trip

 

Something exciting I did this summer was going to Sheridan Lake with my family and cousins from my dad’s side of the family. At Sheridan Lake, my cousins and I went to claim our bedrooms, boys upstairs, girl’s downstairs. After we all claimed our beds, we went outside to the dock and went swimming for a couple of minutes, it was very cold. Later my dad discovered that there were leeches in the water so none of us went swimming anymore except my uncle, he went floating out and came back with 5 leeches on him and had to pull them off.

My cousin Nyla and I went on one of the 3 paddle boards to go look for frogs in the little corners with mud, bushes, and lily pads. The water we looked for the frogs in was very shallow. We used a net and a bucket with water to catch the frogs so we would not get bugs and leeches on our hands. Every time we would go back to the dock, we would have caught around 2 frogs at least, big and small. In the little spot we would go to, there were a lot of frogs but usually they were all camouflage, but you could see their eyes. When we would come back there would always be gross bugs and leeches on our paddle board and paddle.

During the time we went to Sheridan we usually would spend most of our time out on the lake paddling, because we did not want to swim with leeches. Sometimes we would come inside and watch Disney movies with my youngest cousin Abigail, and we would sing frozen songs while all the adults were outside. It was an incredibly fun trip.