It's been a fun week!

I have managed to get out with the "new to me" wilderness at every opportunity. The fore-mentioned frisky pup has taken his first canoe ride (and first swim) and seemed to enjoy it all.

I've paddled Rebecca Lake and Fish Lake as after-work paddles: think of them as tests to get comfortable and try new things

Today's paddle was something entirely different! I really wanted to see how the canoe (and myself) would perform in the wind. I put in at Pelican Lake outside St Michael, Mn.

Pelican is undergoing a revamp. It is one of a hand full of lakes that serve as stopping grounds for large numbers of diving ducks and is now being converted from a nice lake with large numbers of small panfish to a lake that caters to the birds. In the relatively short time that I was there, I saw countless coots, ruddy ducks, hooded merganser, mallards. It was sublime!

I can not recommend this lake highly enough!!

Oh yeah....The wilderness handled the wind with great ease and will henceforth be known as 'Walks on Water'

Welcome to the Solo Forum, lots of great info here and people, I love both my Wildernesses, I was out early this morning to, love first light.