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Summer Afternoon Boating and Tubing on Tahoe

·Truckee, California·#summer#boating#tahoe#family#tubing
A child in a life vest sits at a boat's steering wheel, with a lake and treelined shore in the background.

Took the boat out for a summer afternoon of boating and tubing. Before we even left the dock the kids climbed all over everything — one of them planted in the driver's seat hauling on the wheel like it might actually do something, the other two sitting on the swim platform with popsicles while the tube bobbed on its rope alongside.

Out on the water we ran the WOW tube most of the afternoon, trading off riders while the kids knelt backwards on the rear bench to watch and shout. One of them spent a whole run standing on the seat, life jacket cinched tight, hair straight sideways in the wind.

By late afternoon the haze had thickened toward the pass — smoke from somewhere, the ridgelines going gray behind it. We kept pulling the tube anyway. The dog wedged itself under somebody's feet near the console and stayed there.

A person, two children in life vests, a boat, and a large inflatable tube are on a sunny lake.A boat with a person and two children at a pier, a water tube floats on a lake with mountains.A man and a child sit in a boat docked at a wooden pier, with a woman boarding and a lake behind them.A person drives a boat on a lake, pulling a tube with two people, as two others ride along in the boat.Inside a boat, a person drives while a child waves, pulling two people on a tube across a lake with forested hills.A man drives a boat with three passengers, pulling a tube with two people on a lake surrounded by forested hills.A child in a life vest looks at the camera from a boat, with a man driving on a lake near a forest.A person drives a boat towing two people on a tube, with children and a dog inside, on a lake surrounded by hazy mountains.

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