Beaver Sighting

On our way to the supermarket we stopped to explore the Mill Creek nature preserve near Berlin Center, Ohio. We were the only people there. Everything we saw was completely natural and undeveloped. We saw a peaceful pond that we think is the home of a beaver.

We saw a mysterious dark shape moving along just under the surface of the water, with only a couple of small areas above the waterline. We kept our eyes on it as it crossed the pond. We started calling it Nessie, after the popular name of the Loch Ness monster. It disappeared with a sudden twist and a loud splash a couple of feet from a mound of sticks in the middle of the pond. After a bit it hit us--the mound looked a lot like a beaver lodge.


After dinner we took a spin around the campground on our new comfort bikes. We're gradually getting used to riding with high, wide handlebars instead of the low, narrow ones on our old mountain bikes. Our ride took us to the boat launching ramp right at sunset. There's a picnic area there, and some couples had gathered to watch the sunset.