Willow Creek Recreation Area, Lake Natoma

We took the paddle boat for an afternoon float today. My aunt told us about the Willow Creek small boat ramp and we thought we would try our luck fishing and take advantage of the opportunity to get a feel for the new boat and how we might want to set it up.

I caught a worm container, a pine cone, and a clam.... sorry, no pic of the worm container hehe.

We trolled the shoreline and let the light wind push us towards folsom lake for about a mile until we came to the little island in the middle of the lake. There was a floating platform with restrooms on it there, they were locked, as well as some pairs of geese gaurding their nests. Some of the geese were apparently not worried about a nest as they were just laying big goose eggs right on the rocky shore.

We also spotted alot of Egrets and Herons diving for fish and feeding the babies in their nests along the shoreline. The birds look like black and white christmas ornaments Reminds me of the way the bald eagles roost in the evergreens above the canneries in Alaska.