Most of Griffin Lake is within the McQueen Lake Environmental Education Center.   It is a swampy lake, not suitable for fishing.   It is too small a lake for a destination paddle and there is no good access to the lake’s edge.   On a spring day I put my kayak on some wheels and followed a rough track from the Isobel Lake Road to the lake and paddled the shoreline.

There are some open grassland slopes on the northeast corner of the dark lake.

In summer the marshy area between the two legs of the lake would not be navigable, but in the spring the channel was full of water.  Redwing blackbirds called from the reeds and rushes.

Two loons were displaying mating/nesting behaviors on the lake, unused to humans on the lake.

The loop around the lake was 2.5 km.   Near the end of the paddle, I passed the remains of an old homestead, built and occupied by John Brown from 1914 – 1923

I have paddled all of the larger lakes of our area and so now some of the smaller lakes are on the “list.”   Watch for more updates to come.