DAY SEVEN, TUESDAY 7/21/2015, Dunking, Chillaxing, Fun times

One of my goals on this trip was for the kids to earn their Pathfinder canoeing honor. My wife and I are club leaders and this was a fantastic opportunity for the kids to add another honor to their sash. I recalled my experience as a boy living near Brainard, MN going to North Star summer camp and earning my canoeing honor. I took my two anchor bags, tied float cushions to the rope, and created two points in the middle of the cove for the kids to practice their paddling skills. It was quite fun watching successes and failures in paddling skills.

Part of our time we spent flipping canoes with the kids and then righting them and attempting to paddle them again. I must say that trying to flip the Souris River 18.5 Quetico is not easy if the kids are trying to keep from tipping. To make it flip I ending up grabbing the thwart bar near the railings and just lunged out of the canoe. We had another canoeist fishing via trolling nearby and he kept looking at our antics probably wondering just what on earth we were doing. The kids looked like submariners under the overturned hulls.

We also saw a momma Loon and her babies in our cove and all around it was a delightfully delicious day.