I got some groundbreaking news for all you Camano North Enders:\u00a0 we found Lost Lake.\u00a0 Down by us, we don\u2019t lose lakes.\u00a0 Course, we don\u2019t have any lakes.\u00a0 Got some ponds that dry up in the summer.\u00a0 Got some garden features.\u00a0 Even got a couple of seasonal streams.\u00a0 We know where they are, although we don\u2019t give em names.\u00a0 Laziness,\u00a0 I suppose.\u00a0 Too damn much trouble to name a creek that dries up every summer drought.\u00a0 Then it really would make sense if we named it Lost River or Hidden Creek.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For a couple months, anyway\u2026..
\nI was driving around recently doing my usual Lewis and Clark on Camano, exploring the backroads in case we get another major road improvement detour, maybe come up with a Northwest Passage to Stanwood nobody has discovered yet, and right past Dry Lake Road —- another water feature disappeared — there it was: Lost Lake.\u00a0 I swerved right in.\u00a0 About 15 seconds later I was lost.\u00a0 Which is why it\u2019s probably called Lost Lake.\u00a0 Not the lake — you!\u00a0 I found the lake pretty quick.\u00a0 Getting out of the labyrinth was a couple days of dead end cul-de-sacs, refusing to ask directions until the gas tank hit E.
\nLots of places get lost on the \u201cisland you can drive to\u201d.\u00a0 Folks just hit the mainline to the bridge and rarely explore the tributaries.\u00a0 I meet people all the time who live on Camano and have never been beyond their own blacktop turn-off.\u00a0 No interest, I guess.\u00a0 Maybe the high gas prices.\u00a0 Fear of the unknown.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 They started homesteading their 40 acres and left further exploration of the hinterlands to latter day\u00a0 adventurers such as myself.\u00a0 Which means reporting back to civilization was spotty, if not outright, rip-roaring, belief-shredding lies and legends.
\nThe South End, while not exactly lost, is very rarely found.\u00a0 Occasionally I\u2019ll find a car cruising slowly, window rolled down to ask directions.\u00a0 How far to the Whidbey Island\u00a0ferry an elderly couple asked recently, obviously shaken from hours of circling the Head.\u00a0\u00a0 I pointed across Saratoga Strait.\u00a0 The lady in the passenger seat began a slow moan.\u00a0 And, of course, being the bearer of rotten\u00a0 news, I felt bad too.\u00a0 But hey, they probably made their way out.\u00a0 A day late for the wedding they needed to be at in 15 minutes.\u00a0 A lot of us weren\u2019t that lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I got some groundbreaking news for all you Camano North Enders:\u00a0 we found Lost Lake.\u00a0 Down by us, we don\u2019t lose lakes.\u00a0 Course, we don\u2019t have any lakes.\u00a0 Got some ponds that dry up in the summer.\u00a0 Got some garden features.\u00a0 Even got a couple of seasonal streams.\u00a0 We know where they are, although we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}