Good News Friday: Letterboxing and Nearly Fishing Season

The real spring-like weather has brought many people outdoors to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. It also has some fine-tuning their fishing poles and brushing off their hiking boots getting ready to hit the trails or the ponds.  

The Connecticut Water Company and the Shenipsit Lake Association announced this week that the Shenipsit Lake Recreation program will open for the season on April 20. That’s a week from Saturday!

Here’s the rest of the deal, if you want to use your oar or electric powered boats on the reservoir you need to have them to the Ellington Road storage facility in Tolland on April 17 starting at 6 a.m. Storage is free and there are 45 storage slips for canoes and rowboats that are available to the public for boat storage. Why three days before? It’s a required quarantine for the vessels to make sure that no foreign species are introduced to the lake by a boat, such as Zebra Mussels.

If fishing or boating season really doesn’t excite you, but hiking or letterboxing do, you’re in luck. There is a new letterbox tucked away in Crandall Park!  

Students from the Northeast Elementary School in Vernon, I think, created a special box two years ago and it was just brought to the part this week, according to a post on letterboxing.org. Here’s a hint: it’s off the blue trail and by a cairn.  

Have a great weekend!