Mapping

Since I was away for the long weekend I found myself up at the crack of dawn today to go map my spot. The temperature gauge on my car measured a balmy 6 degrees as I drove up North Avenue. However I do have to say taking a walk on the beach sure beats sitting in class as a way to wake up in the morning. My efforts resulted in this following map:

Due to the heavy prevalence of Northern White Cedar at my spot, I labeled all those trees as a separate symbol, while the rest of the trees fell under the category of "other trees." An additional note is that I didn't mark any trees/shrubs that were shorter than my waist on the map; there were too many of them.

The parts of the map marked "cliff" are where the land falls away abruptly down into the water. There are trees there as you can see, but I didn't want to climb down to count them and risk sliding off into the water.

Steep incline 

There were some Northern White Cedars that appeared to be multiple trees but were all growing out of one trunk. To designate those trees, I drew multiple connected squares on my map. For example, in the case of the symbol on the map where two pink squares are adjacent, the tree looks like this: 

Two trees for the price of one!

In an additional, totally unrelated note to the mapping, the ice in the lake has changed again. Some parts of it aren't frozen anymore, probably due to the warm weather we had last week. In this picture from my spot you can see the unfrozen patches where the wind has created ripples in the lake, and the frozen patches were the lake appears smooth. 

That's all for now!