These picture's were taken in September of 1981 on Lake Gaston.
We lived in a house over looking the main body of the lake and had some friends down from Washinton DC for the weekend. Mom and Dad and friends were on the deck eating breakfast one morning when they spotted this big fellow coming across the lake straight for our house so they decided to get up close and personal with him.
As you can see they did just that. After spotting him they grabbed the camera and jumped on the boat and followed him around for awhile taking pic's I have several other pic's but these were the best one's to scan.
This old boy had swam about a mile across the lake before exiting the water about 50 yards off the side of our deck. I was about 15 yrs old when these pic's were taken and of course I was in the bed sleeping when all this was going on. Mom said at one point she was sitting on the front of the boat rubbing her feet on the deer's back.
The last pic gives you a good shot of where he was headed the house in the back ground is where we lived for about 6 years and this big boy went up the hill about 50 yards to the left of the house they told me when I woke up. |
