notes, updates, adventures from the -topias

Today was a great day at the 'topias. I picked up a nice, big, silt anchor in Lindenhurst, and then Doug and I did a major 'depot run for rope, chain, and such. We assembled a massive conglomerate anchor, and then Doug, Chuck, and Justin rowed a three-boat convoy out there while I circled on DorkBike patrol. Pretty much the lake pushed us where it wanted us to be, and once we had been shoved out of the boat house's way, we dropped our quadro-power anchor into the depths.

The lake couldn't a picked a better spot. Right in front of the parking lot, public access instead of that smarmy yacht club scene, and the world's fair glistening in its rusted wreckage behind it.

It was a windy and sunny day. We all got pretty wet (I fell in all the way to my neck), and chuck spent most of the day standing just below the surface of the water on his oil slick island.

Hopping from tipsy island to tipsy island, trying to make every connection as redundant as possible, getting all the islands online, we were networking in the wild towards windburn and wet feet.

More photos here!

It feels good to have all those islands back out there, and I feel confident they'll stay there this time. I think (hope) we've learned something about anchoring islands in mud, and now that the weather has turned for the spring, there are tons of people noticing and asking about the islands.

Now we have to figure out how to capture those people and get them out there...