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| A GORGEOUS SPRING MORNING |
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| MOUTH OF SIOUX RIVER NARROWED AT ENTRANCE TO THE LAKE |
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| BACKWATER OF SIOUX, INCLUDING BOAT LAUNCH, COMPLETELY BLOCKED BY HUGE NEW SANDBAR |
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| A DEAD END FOR BOATERS |
Wednesday, 8:15 AM. 44 degrees F at the ferry dock, 47 on the back porch. Wind variable, light with stronger occasional gusts. The sky is clear with a few wispy white clouds. The humidity is 79%, the barometer beginning to fall, currently at 30.23". It is a gorgeous spring morning, and the weather having warmed up considerably, I put the hanging baskets back up on the porch.
Buddy and I went for a walk on the beach out to the mouth of the Sioux River yesterday and were surprised to see that recent storms have completely altered the mouth of the river by erecting a huge new sandbar. At this point it completely eliminates access to the lake from the boat launch on Hwy. 13, and unless the DNR brings a dredge on a barge to remove tons of sand I see no way of it being reopened.
This sandbar is probably seventy-five to a hundred yards in length and at least 25 yards in width. It must have been deposited by violent easterly wind and wave action. This is by far the biggest change in the mouth of the Sioux River in the fifteen years I have been familiar with it. The power of wind-driven water is virtually unbelievable. What is deposited in the big lake by the river ends up tossed back on shore in a new configuration.
CROSSING THE BAR
Alfred Lloyd Tennison
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
(second verse)
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