A long long long long long time ago,
This whole area was under a mile of glacial ice. Then as the earth began to warm again after the last ice age, the glaciers retreated and this area became an inlet for the ocean.
Approximately 13,000 years ago, further retreat of the glacier and depression of the earth’s surface from the weight of the ice allowed marine waters from the St. Lawrence estuary to flood the Basin. The Champlain Sea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, formed. Many marine animals, including beluga whales, Atlantic cod, seals, and blue mussels lived in the Champlain Sea. In 1849, railroad workers found a beluga whale skeleton in Charlotte, VT, which is now on display at the University of Vermont. Many other fossils of the Champlain Sea time period have been found in Canada and in sediment beneath today’s Lake.
With the weight of the ice removed, the earth’s surface slowly rebounded, cutting off the supply of salt water from the St. Lawrence River around 10,000 years ago. Rainfall and runoff turned the saltwater of the Champlain Sea back to freshwater, creating present day Lake Champlain.
Which gave rise to the local legends about Champ. The lake still runs deep in some places who knows what might be down there...
I put this cache here to draw you to the area and lovely state park its full of happy memories for me and everyone else who has come there over the years. Stay a while, check out the park the waters run clean and cold all summer due to the currents off the point. Take the ferry to Burton island get a few more caches if you want. Maybe you will see Champ ;P