Thursday, September 27, 2012 Today’s goal was to day trip north. After taking about an hour to climb out of our warm sleeping bags, we finally got up, ate breakfast, packed a lunch and started our adventure. After a quick paddle to the Devil’s Cascade portage, we were quickly checking out the campsite on top overlooking the cascade, well, looking over what should be a cascade. :-( Wasn’t much of a cascade? But on the bright side, it was one spectacular view from up there.

We were back on the trail and started to head north out of Little Indian Sioux River. Then we hit a road block.

It was one of the biggest ones we have ever had to go up and over on. Miranda’s fascination with beavers just got bigger. She was amazed how they could build something so big and in the middle of a river. ;-) Finally, we were entering Loon Lake. After entering Loon Lake, we traveled west around a big island and then headed north across the lake and landed in CANADA. SHHHHH!!!! :-) She was so excited and so nervous at the same time, LOL, it was funny. This made her whole trip.

After canoeing for most of the day we started to head back and stopped by a campsite in the mouth of the LIS and enjoyed a snack/lunch. Once again, she was able to find some creatures. She found five frogs on this little pool of water. She really does love animals. After our great day trip, we enjoyed our supper. We needed some water so Miranda took her turn in steering the canoe. Of course, when we head out so did all the beavers! They were all heading north for the night. We ended up about 20 feet away from one when it popped up in front of us. Her comment was, “they are so big”! We settled down for the night and Miranda decided she want try her luck at making a fire. She did a great job gathering tinder and finding two sticks to rub together. Just Kidding! But she did get her first fire lit and she kept it going and put it out on her own!