A deer stood in a clearing on shore and gazed at the camera on the boat. Note how the coloration of the deer blended with the rocky background.

Female mallard ducks swam just off the port side of the houseboat.

An American eagle was seen on the distant shore. It stood perched on a small boulder.

Vultures gathered on the shore and a couple of them perched on old tree stumps that had at one time been submerged.

A merganser duck with its head feathers still wet from diving for fish.

Two merganser ducks swam in placid water just outside the mooring line of the houseboat.

The footprints of birds were found in the dried mud of the lake bottom.

A few ducks swam in the broken reflection of rust colored cliffs behind.

As the level of the lake dropped, once burned trees were exposed. The water around the base of those trees was technically a swamp (a submerged forest). Grebes swam with the swamp behind.

Gypsy is a city dog who was enjoying her first "camping" trip on a houseboat. When the houseboat was moored to shore, the dog explored the rocky shoreline.