The Call of the Wild

I just returned from a six-day trip to the Boundary Waters (BWCAW, for those of you who love acronyms). And I think the pictures do a pretty good job of sharing the experience, so I'll just give a brief explanation for these shots.


Loading up the packs before we depart. That's Peter on the left, Liz in the background, and Sergio on the right.



It rained the first day.


But after that the weather was great.


We saw a snake...


...and an inquisitive owl...


...and a fish getting a suntan...


...and a ninja loon...


...and two bald eagles, who watched us while we were swimming.


We stood on rocks and pointed.


We walked through a part of the forest that burned a few years ago.


This is Long Island Lake, where we stayed for two days. Our campsite is on the point jutting into the lake from the left.


A nice sunset.


Same sunset, just a little while later.


We built fires from dryer lint and used flint and steel to light them.


And we roasted acorn squash on one of those fires.


We did a lot of standing around...


...and practiced looking tough and growing our beards.


We saw a lot of beautiful lakeshore...


...and a couple misty mornings on the lakes.


Oh, yeah, and we paddled our canoes a lot. Altogether we canoed and portaged (where you carry the canoe on your shoulders from one lake to the next) 30 miles in five and a half days. It was pretty idyllic and relaxing.