Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Today was a mirror of yesterday, hot and windy. Made pancakes sweetened with dehydrated blueberries with bacon heated over the campfire. We mostly cooked our meals this way but heated water, made coffee and such using the little Canway camping stove using the fuel tablets for a quick and clean heat. Cooled off in the afternoon by wading into the water and just enjoying. NO, we did not bathe, just got ourselves nice and cool. Experimented with bannock hot pockets today. Dehydrated hamburger and cheese inside bannock and fried over the fire. I must say it was a pretty good imitation of a cheeseburger! Played cards again during the afternoon when Stephen spotted something in the water across the bay from us. Turned out to be a cow moose walking in apx. 4 feet of the water. Fun to watch for about 30 minutes as SHE cooled off as we had. More fishing brought a few more smallmouth and a very small walleye. Did not really matter what we caught, just fun to do it instead of mowing the yard back home, ha. During our after dinner chat we took notice of the animals we had seen. Moose, snapping turtle, ducks, loons, swans, squirrels, a single (thank goodness) mouse, eagles, a hummingbird that buzzed us one day at lunch and a beaver which we heard in the evening a few times slap the water with their tail to warn off something. On the way out on Friday we also saw a mink and a few snakes on a portage or two. Popped some popcorn this night as the wind died down a little and brought the mosquitoes out, but they were just a bother, not really biting. Fun to hear the boys exclaim that they had never seen popcorn cooked over a fire in oil before! I had to chuckle under my breath at this NEW discovery.