Friday, June 19, 2009

Titles? Who needs titles?

Day three consisted of another nice breakfast followed by a 2-3 mile paddle into the Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe Area. The BWCAW has lots of restrictions to keep it as natural as possible. There were no motor boats and very few people where we went.
Everyone but me hiked over a hill to the next lake in the BWCAW and had lunch. Me, I was catching dinner. I found a great fishing hole and just had a blast catching some and releasing some. On our way back paddling across the lake a super windy gust front hit us, pushing us home. We actually could stop paddling for the most part and just rudder to steer the kyaks home. When we got home the wind storm calmed down. We relaxed in our own ways. The "boys" went out again to fish and catch a sunset from water level. Ahhhh.

Carter prepping the kyaks for the big journey.


A scene on the lake with a rare view of Jody in the lead.
Bass at the fishin' hole
The Dale family home safe after a day of lake travel.
Dinner (first course)
Dinner (first and second course together)Tough guy relaxin'Brian and Sydney taking in the sun on the deck.
Jody and Heather spying on the birds.Bathroom break? Nope, just sneaking up on seagulls snacking on fish fillet remains.Here is some of the forrest fire remnants. Here is life emerging from the ash.

Many of the trees looked like this. The rock peeps.Sunset on the fire damage area.

The island in front of the cabin.



Always a nice sunset to top off the day. Vacations are good.

3 comments:

Mama K said...

Those fish must be the biggest you've ever caught!! Carter is sooo adorable!

Laurie said...

That is just gorgeous country!!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful pics...my fav is the margarita shot! :)

A