Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Windy this morning when I wake so, I try to sleep in a little but without success, I am up at 6:00 making coffee and having my morning bagels. The little squirrel which showed up yesterday shows up again, but doesn't stay long or bother anything which is good. The wind lays a little so decide to take the canoe out and see if I can redeem myself and beat my wife fishing... since she is not with me I stand a better chance! I manage to catch a smallie close to 4 pounds and various smaller smallmouth before I head back to camp as the wind picks up more. There I feel somewhat better in my ability! As the winds blows for most of the afternoon I spend time looking around the island and gathering firewood. I notice some plants that have leaves that looks suspiciously like posion ivy... but here? on an island 1/4 of a mile from Canada? It had no vine! Just a stem with 3 leaves... couldn't be!!
Kim wakes at about 9:00 we have coffee and she has breakfast. We decide to try and get behind a couple of the islands out of the wind and fish some. We drift leeches and manage to catch more walleye for dinner, and plenty of smallies for fun. Around noon the action stops again so we head back to camp for some quality hammock time. I tie out our walleye that we kept, while Kim heads for her hammock. I am not too tired so I decide to do some exploring. While looking around I find a huge pine that has sawdust all around it. It gets me wondering what the heck has happened. I look closer and see ants! Carpenter ants I guess coming out of holes in the huge old pine and dropping bits of sawdust as they chew tunnels to move through and live in the tree... Sad!

Then back to camp and into the hammock for a snooze! A little later I notice a canoe passing in front of our cove, then another! Looks like 3 teens and an adult looking for a site! But they continue on. Around 4:30 I decide I am hungry, so it is up and take the walleye to the backside of the island to clean and then pans sear him with a little butter and oil, add a little sea salt, plate him up with some wild rice and dinner is served!

The winds of the day finally lay about 7:00 and the mosquitoes take full advantage of no wind! We quickly shower and head to the tent. The warm shower felt good! We are ready for sleep and it is only 8:00! One thing I notice is an itching sensation around my ankles, on the top of my left hand, and my right forearm. I contribute it to the active mosquitoes... Wrong!