Lake Lucerne

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We did a little ice diving trip up to Lake Lucerne this weekend.  It's turning into an annual trip - head up to a friends cabin for the weekend, do a little ice diving, and do a little of everything else.

Lucerne was good - the lake usually has good viz, and under the ice it is great.  We had 40+ feet of viz, and had some good diving.  I got in two dives, so it was pretty cool.  We didn't have a lot of fish life to see unfortunately.  I spotted one really nice bullhead, but other than that, there wasn't much for life to see.  It was just cool to enjoy such great viz.  I love the sight of an endless sheet of ice up above my head - it is such a cool sight that so few people get to enjoy...I love staring up at it and just enjoying the view.

After our diving at Lucerne, we did what comes naturally when a bunch of people are in a northwoods cabin.  We had brought an armory's worth pistols and ammnunition w/ us, so we proceeded to put a lot of holes in a lot of targets.  I got to get re-acquainted with a chromed Desert Eagle .44 magnum , so that was definitely fun.  My girlfriend and I put a few pounds of ammo through my .45, and there were a lot of other good noisemakers.  A highlight was trying to replay a scene from countless action flicks.  My friend has the same .45 that I do, so I loaded them both up and took both of them out on the deck.  A pistol in each hand and empty shells flying everywhere is a heck of a lot of fun, but you really can't hit a thing - it's strangely satisfying though The nights were filled w/ good beer and cards (and occasionally more noise - it's fun to shoot pistols at night...the flames flying out the ends of the barrels are easier to see *grin*). 

It was a really relaxing weekend overall - how was the diving out at Wazee??