Oyster, Hustler, Ruby, Lynx, Little Shell, Shell

Great sunrise on Oyster brought in the day nicely. A little longer of a trip today, with a lot more people than we had been seeing on other days, probably people looping between EP14 and EP16. We made decent time and looked at a few of the sites on Shell, starting with the southern solo island site, which was taken. Most of the rest of the sites looked like there was something to be desired and we made our way up to Con Island. We took the northern most campsite on the island, just in time as a few groups popped out of the portage from Heritage (which is right next to the site).

The fire pit is surrounded by a bunch of tall pines on a large rock, about 20 feet up from the water. There is a little swampy area right below the rock where a beaver later showed up at and gnawed on some wood for a while. It seems you could walk to the other campsites on the island through the trails in the woods, although we never did. The weather was extremely hot, at least 90 degrees by our estimation, and the flies were really bad to the point where we had to wear pants. We did swim a little to cool off but not too much, as it is very shallow around the site, with some weeds and no good jumping points.

We tried some fishing in the hopes of some walleye; however, we didn’t even get a bite. Maybe the fish had been turned off by the really hot weather. We took down the rest of our vodka and pineapple chunks we had soaked in vodka. The vodka soak tasted much better than the pineapple chunks. It was gone all too fast though, next year more booze. We had another nice sunset but we didn’t really stay up for the moonrise. The sun and the heat had taken it out of us today.