{"id":3057,"date":"2019-10-16T08:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T08:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2019-10-16T08:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T08:57:49","slug":"the-marsh-lake-dyke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/2019\/10\/16\/the-marsh-lake-dyke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marsh Lake Dyke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3011\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC02625Three.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3011\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3011\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC02625Three-176x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC02625Three-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC02625Three-768x1310.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC02625Three-600x1024.jpg 600w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC02625Three.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Views of the dyke<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had viewed Marsh Lake from south of the lake\u00a0 in 2017, but it wasn&#8217;t until Oct 9, 2019 that I walked some of the northern shore. I did so with a friend, Bob K.,\u00a0 from the NS Wild Flora Society.<\/p>\n<p>We got there via a powerline to the north, passing through hemlock dominated forest as we proceeded south down the slope of a large drumlin.<\/p>\n<p>As we approached the lake, we entered into some low lying damp forest and then, just before we reached the marsh that borders the lake, we encountered what seemed to a be a dyke or levee.<\/p>\n<p>It is 2-3 m wide;\u00a0 on the marsh side it rises up about 2 meters from the wet marsh, on the forest side about a meter from the forest floor and supports some very big white pine and hemlock&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/forests\/marsh-lake-dyke\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had viewed Marsh Lake from south of the lake\u00a0 in 2017, but it wasn&#8217;t until Oct 9, 2019 that I walked some of the northern shore. I did so with a friend, Bob K.,\u00a0 from the NS Wild Flora &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/2019\/10\/16\/the-marsh-lake-dyke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marsh-lake"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}