Deer in the Lake

[The Real BigGuy]

On Wednesday 8/11 my wife and son were at our place on Little Bear. About 3 PM my son heard noise between our place and the house next to us. Out of the middle of the island came 3 deer at a full run. Three deer came down the hill and ran straight into the lake and started swimming towards Cow.

Unfortunately, a boat was coming thru the Hole-in-the-Wall and the deer were scared and swerved out towardfs the No-Wake sign and then back towards Little Bear out around the corner beyond our neighbor's place. My wife ran next door to see how they were doing and saw that someone on Little Bear got in a boat and got between them and the island and were, I prepfer to believe, unintentionally hearding them towards Long Island then towards Sandy Island. She yelled at the person to leave the deer alone but either they didn't hear her or they ignored her.

About 3/4 of the way there the people in the boat appeared to finally understand what they were doing and backed off but placed their boat to turn the deer back toward the closest point, Long Island. Then a Captin Bonehead in a crusier comes along and puts his boat between the deer and Long Island. The smallest deer starts to thrash and things don't look good.

My wife runs back to our doock to get in our boat to try and get the people to leave the deer alone. As she gets to the dock an MP boat comes thru the Hole and my wife tells him what is going on. He heads over and gets the boats away from the deer so they can safely make it to Long Island.

After hearing the story, it makes me wonder how some people can be so oblivious or uncaring about what they are doing. How about just observing from a distance and enjoying.

I'll post a couple of pictures. I've heard about deer swiming but never actually seen it.