There's no public access to Morvro Lake, so we were looking over our shoulders for the owners of this property the entire time we did water quality. Luckily they didn't show up while we were carefully tiptoeing through their yard to get to the lake! Of course we did knock on the door first to ask them if they minded, but no one answered. It was very nervewracking to be watching over my shoulder while pipetting water from the lake into tubes in the back of our van, which we'd parked next to their two old pickups in their huge gravel driveway which bordered on parking-lot size. They probably would have thought we were crazy if they'd come home! It didn't help thinking about what a rural place we were in; one of my professors has had a couple guns pulled on him before in Alaska while trying to get to one lake or another. Funny, a bunch of fish scientists doesn't seem very threatening to me!
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Just like today, I was standing on the side of the road at about 9000 feet up in the Rockies photographing some white stumps in a small pool. Suddenly I hear this voice wanting to know what I was photographing. Evidently I had pointed my camera towards someone's "place" and they were not happy with me being there. I was photographing the damned stream from the side of the road. People so worry about a camera being point towards their place, or water being taken from THERE lake.
P'taker
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