Thursday was my first kayaking trip of the year - wow!  I'm usually out long before this!  Time gets away from you when you're in a pandemic (and the parks are closed, etc.)  It was a nice day out there though - just a touch of wind, and a bit chippy, but not bad.  We put in at Brandy Creek, and it was easy to see the fire damage.  We were at the two-year anniversary of the fire - it started 7/23/18 near the Carr Powerhouse Road at Whiskeytown.

Some of the dead trees down by the lake edge.

The mountains look beautiful in the far distance, but....

Closer up, you can see that the entire mountain was burned over.

We saw several osprey in their nests - hard to get a good photo, and I'm blaming the choppy water - it's hard to take a good telephoto picture when you're bobbing around!  Here's one of the nests:

And a parent peaking over the edge at us (if you look closely!)

I think this might be one of the babies - it was out on the limb the entire time we were in view.  The other nests had parent flying in and out and around them.,