Hike to Lost Lake

Today I went to Lost Lake with my friends. On the way, we crossed a stream and found two frogs. We think they were Green Frogs. When we came to Lost Lake, I found two snakes sunning themselves on a rock. I picked one up with my bare hands for the fist time. It was about two feet long, black with dull red stripes. I looked in my encyclopedia and found that it was a Northern Water Snake. I put it in my net and showed it to my friends. I let the snake go. Me and my friends watched it slither across the water to the other side.

While we were at the Lake, we also caught five frogs, ten salamanders (Sawyer caught 2, Max caught 1, Oliver caught 2 and I caught 5) and four tadpoles. We heard many frogs croaking. They sounded like bullfrogs. We also found a few dead salamanders and water bugs. When I caught a frog, one of them jumped out of my net and I had to catch it with my bare hands. When I put it in the net, it got its head stuck in a piece of netting. We had to use my mom's keys to break the netting to save the frog.

When we came back down to the parking lot, we drove to an ice cream store. I got a chocolate ice cream, Sawyer got a vanilla and chocolate ice cream, Oliver got a milkshake, Max got an orange soda, Sam got a vanilla cone, and Mom got a chocolate ice cream and shared it with Owen.