Sunday, August 03, 2025 I was up before the sun today, and the smoke was so much improved that we actually got to see a gorgeous sunrise! Had a leisurely breakfast of coffee and potato pancakes. Now I'm sitting under a jackpine and Jesse is getting ready to go exploring. Clear blue sky with just a hint of haze on the horizon. The peace of this is so good. There's a hummingbird visiting the big leaf aster, and a pair of sapsuckers along with all the chickadees and nuthatches. I hear blue jays on the other shore. Still have seen no other humans.

The woods here are more open.....lots of red and white pine and maple, some older quaking aspen. No birch. There's dogbane and some blackberries. I collected more wood and retired to the "front porch". It's shady with a great breeze, about 15 feet from the water.

Jesse got back from exploring and we saw a family of otters swim by- the little ones were squeaking and rolling around in the water, playing. Then I went back in the woods to visit a large white pine that Jesse found.

The day passed with lots of gazing at the water, watching birds, and taking pictures of the cool rock formations. Ribbons of dark rock intrusions in the granite, places where it looks like the quartz has melted and reformed into large crystal "bubbles", all sorts of interesting metamorphic changes in the rock.~Moosecamp Lake