Lake Sammamish Island
Posted By Dwight on June 18, 2010
It’s not every day that we see an island floating on Lake Sammamish.
While kayaking last weekend we spotted this clump of land, complete with grass and a tree, bobbing along the lake.
Apparently the unusually high water level saturated a section of the shoreline. Then the wind—which usually comes out of the south—shifted to the north. A tree caught the wind like a sail and dislodged the clump from the shore, sending it off toward the northwest end of the lake.
That’s where the outlet to the Sammamish River is. It made me wonder if the floating island would create a blockage, or diminish flow rate of the water from the lake to the river.
So I kept my camera handy, and watched. 
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