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.
7 comments:
What a neat post, Ben! The scenery is beautiful, and must have been breathtaking, at times. Sounds like a very memorable experience. Welcome home, "tough guy!"
That sounds like a great vacation Ben!
Great photos, Ben. Any mooses or wolveses?
meese, steve. the plural is meese
And if there were wolveses, did they bare their teeth, like the ones in the back yard on Giles, frequently seen by some (or maybe just one) on the way to the compost pile?
I didn't realize that Daniel learned that tough guy snarl from you Ben.
That looks like the perfect camping trip - enough strenuous activity to make the standing/sitting around seem like a very good idea.
Nope, no mooses, wolveses, or meeses. Although we did see some pretty big scat on a couple of the portage trails. It looked scarily human, but I'm not an expert on these sorts of things. Bear scat comes out in pellets, right?
Yes, Janell, I taught Daniel everything he knows. Including hyper-texting.
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