Nine dragon lake

Nine Dragon Lake Scenery Zone is located in Nine Dragon Lake Town in the northwest of Zhenhai District, Ningbo. It is 19 kilometers away from Zhenhai urban district and 18 kilometers away from Ningbo downtown area. As one of the ten best new sceneries of Ningbo, Nine Dragon Lake Scenic Spot is surrounded by mountains on three sides with low hills as its main geographical feature. Nine Dragon Lake is made up of four lakes, namely, Peacock Lake, Phoenix Lake, Moon Lake and Swan Lake with an area of water up to 2 square kilometers. The whole scenery is superior in natural ecological environment with profound historical and cultural significance.

initially, we were concerned that we might get lost or not be able to find help if we needed it. Once we were there, we found the 1:50,000 scale topographic maps were somewhat difficult to use and sometimes inaccurate (South Agean islands near Agean Lake comes to mind). Maps with more detail would've been nice, but I don't believe any exist. The blazed/marked portages were almost always easy to find, and while we were often unsure until we found the portage, we never actually got lost.

We don't yet have a GPS for our wilderness trips, but I'm really inclined to get one for our next trip. It could have come in handy a few times on this trip. Thanks to Peg's good orienteering skills, we weren't in any real danger of being lost, it just took us longer than necessary to navigate through a few lakes that either had far too many islands (in my humble opinion) or, in the reverse case, lakes with very few distinguishing coastal or island landmarks.