After spending much of the month of June weed whacking and mowing through hip-high grass to clear trails and lawns, we’ve been mostly just maintaining things with quick mows or walking the trails with clippers to cut back the overgrowth. This week, we decided to do one more big pass through of all the trails with the mower and weed whacker so we can keep it in good shape for the rest of the summer.
One spot we haven’t had to really clear is the marsh area on the North Trail where there’s a section of wooden planks over some swampy sections, but the last few weeks have seen the cat-o-nine tails grow up and, unfortunately, the poison ivy really started coming in. As far as I know, I’m one of the 15% of people who doesn’t seem to be affected by poison ivy as I’ve never had a reaction to it in the past, so I went down and cleared that section of trails well after our last visitors to the island had returned to their boats. Hopefully that keeps the leaves of three away from unsuspecting visitors and we’ll have a nice clear boardwalk for hikers for the rest of the summer.
Before!!
We’ll get some after pictures soon 🙂
And, I figured, since I’m scheduled to go to shore tomorrow, I’ll have the chance to visit a walk-in clinic if for some reason I end up having a reaction!
Daily Weather Report
Temperature: 68.0 / 59.5
Early morning clouds and rain showers, cloudy most of the day
Wind: 3.4mph W / Gust 17.2mph
High Tide: 12:34am / 1:08pm
Low Tide: 6:59am / 7:04pm
Tough place to keep clear. Like you, I’ve never reacted to poison ivy. Were you able to find your way back up to the North Trail after cutting through the swamp?
We did, but we were not able to find the marker on the spur trail to the north of the loop. Now we’re focusing on cutting little paths to the back of the blackberry brambles so that we can get the out of reach berries!