Thursday, June 29, 2006 Layover day Iron Lake I get up at 5am to watch the sun rise. Dan got mad when I asked for camera at 5:30. Can't blame him but we missed a good picture. He got up & we went fishing from the canoe about 6am. No luck. The eggs got broken when the bear bag crashed down but we saved most of them and had really good scrambled eggs & bacon. Layover days are great! Ben's foot is looking worse & has a red circle around the sore spot. We treat with bactroban & start him on Bactrim orally. I start to think of ways to make a quick exit if it gets worse. Lunch Peanut butter sandwiches, then went to the island near by to fish. There were a lot of blueberries to pick. I got a bite on a pink & black rubber minnow. Gavin cast a spinner next to it & caught a 14inch walleye we kept for dinner. He caught pike too, but we weren't sure how to clean it & it got away when he tried to rinse it off.
Dinner: Ham steaks, Augratin potatoes & Walleye. Rejected dried peas & carrots. Had fruit cobbler for dessert. (All fruit deserts seem to be dehydrated apples) The boys did a demonstration of blazing saddles as Dan called it. Who knew ham steaks were so gassy? I'm glad we didn't have beans.
Everyone agreed walleye is great. G had brought more rope & we finally got bear bags up w/less problems. They are lighter too. Also we had baths & did laundry. Clean laundry is great too! Boys found lots of ticks on tents. Every site has it's drawbacks.