When the lake level is highest, water reaches far behind the
visible shoreline rocks—and pulls the soil into the lake.
When oversized boats pass by, their wakes
artificially raise the lake level, invisibly (and "innocently") pulling even more soil contents into the lake.
The lake's "reach" is underfoot when one stands at the shoreline. (!)
This tree, which is obviously falling into the lake, could not have started as a sapling at "full pond". This tree is slowly releasing soil into the lake. Like many of the trees along Winter Harbor's shoreline, only a few shoreline rocks are delaying its slow slide into the lake.
I've cropped-out the dredging operation abutting this tree.
The article fails to address the compounding of two or more wakes which extends the invisible reach of water to shorelines
underfoot.
There was a time when we didn't have to clean the waterfront of debris, twigs, limbs and the lake's bottom wasn't quicksand.
Like our neighbors (and islanders), we draw water from the lake. Early in the season, lake water appears different. Can you guess which container just might have the results of nine months of precipitation, an artificially-raised Spring lake level, and a sun-filled weekend of oversized-boat traffic?