I was once doing some needed chainsaw work down at the Loon Center’s “Hemlock Point” trail, when Harry Vogel and I noticed a dense patch of mountain holly vigorously growing in the wetland’s edge at this view point.
Here, from this portion of the Loon Center/Markus Sanctuary Trails, one can sit down on a park bench and gaze out over a pleasant cove of Lake Winnipesaukee. Sometimes a loon couple has utilized the floating raft placed out there in the shallow water, among various boulders strewn around the scene by our glacial past.
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