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Close up of the plant life in Mississippi Lake.

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05414-mississippi-lake-close-800px.jpg I decide that the best choice is to simply leave Kelso Dunes and its campers behind and head west down the power-line roadThumbnails My final morning at Paradise Lake, I'm up early in an attempt to get packed up before the hot sun becomes unbearableI decide that the best choice is to simply leave Kelso Dunes and its campers behind and head west down the power-line roadThumbnails My final morning at Paradise Lake, I'm up early in an attempt to get packed up before the hot sun becomes unbearableI decide that the best choice is to simply leave Kelso Dunes and its campers behind and head west down the power-line roadThumbnails My final morning at Paradise Lake, I'm up early in an attempt to get packed up before the hot sun becomes unbearableI decide that the best choice is to simply leave Kelso Dunes and its campers behind and head west down the power-line roadThumbnails My final morning at Paradise Lake, I'm up early in an attempt to get packed up before the hot sun becomes unbearableI decide that the best choice is to simply leave Kelso Dunes and its campers behind and head west down the power-line roadThumbnails My final morning at Paradise Lake, I'm up early in an attempt to get packed up before the hot sun becomes unbearable

Mississippi Lake water doesn't taste too terrible in the early morning when it's still somewhat cool. But as the day heats up, and the water temperature with it, the green-and-muddy taste and smell get amplified and becomes annoying after a while.

I walk back to the campsite to get out of the sun and to prepare coffee and breakfast: two bowls of instant miso soup with seaweed, my last two Zen Bakery cinnamon rolls, a Granny Smith apple, plus a handful each of dried apricots and tamari-roasted almonds.

A nice addition at Mississippi Lake this year is a garbage can. Most of Coe Park has no garbage collection, so you must pack out all your garbage, which isn't much fun to carry around.