Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Layover day on Ge-be-on-e-quet.

Slept in today and decided to spend another day on Ge-be to fish, swim, relax, and enjoy this beautiful campsite. The weather is still beautiful. After breakfast, we spend time in camp, clean dishes, re-organize our gear/food and enjoy each other's company.

Noah, Joel and I look at the map and talk about goals for tomorrow. We decide to go for an afternoon swim. After we sun ourselves on the rock for a while, it's time for the boys to take an afternoon nap. I must have been tired, I fell asleep too.

Chris spends the afternoon reading, and relaxing around camp.

After lunch, we decide to do some fishing. We caught several small mouth bass near the island east of the campsite, as well as the eastern shoreline. Everyone had fun catching and releasing fish. We save enough for dinner and head back to camp. As we paddle towards camp, we hear thunder to the south. We never see a drop of rain, or a bolt of lightning.

We talk about stopping by Dairy Queen when we get back to town. I promise the boys we'll go... If they are "good" the rest of the trip. I am very excited that the boys are getting along so well. It makes me happy that Noah and Joel are enjoying themselves working and playing together today. It's fun to be with Dad, Chris, Noah and Joel and to hear the laughter around camp. I truly feel alive when I'm in the BWCA. I feel very blessed to have such a great family to share these times with. We anticipate we will be seeing more and more people as we head south towards Nina Moose. Before bed, we get our gear squared away to help get an early start tomorrow.