We had thunderstorms last night. My day to sleep in and I’m up at 5 am thanks to the call of nature! No rain at the moment but still a lot of thunder and lightning to our south. Nice sunrise and even more beautiful double rainbow with a single rainbow reflection into the calm waters. What a way to wake up! We enjoyed the view, killed a few thousand mosquitoes, and Tauna and I retreated to the tent to read while Carolyn braved the bugs.

After a few more hours of on/off thunder and rain, the morning cleared and breakfast preparations began. Pancakes with dehydrated blueberries and homemade syrup with hot beverages was just what we needed. With dishes done and laundry up to dry, the hammocks were calling our names. Our site has great hammock trees for all of us to be right by the water. We all bathed in more bug spray, grabbed our water bottles and books and settled in….for about an hour before the rain moved back in.

We played on/off sprinkle threats all day as the weather made circles around us. Fortunately nothing drenching so we were still able to enjoy our day outside by the water. The mosquitoes were terrible and we were covered in red bloody welts, even with the “good” spray. Also adding to the list of unwanted wildlife today was wood ticks and a few black flies. This site appears to have a lot of animal activity as we found several bones and animal furs around the site. But no problems during our stay.

We decided to do our dinner for lunch given the weather so pizza it was with raspberry crumble for dessert. Yummmmmyyy!

The rest of the afternoon was spent reading, killing mosquitoes and trying to forecast the next rain shower. By 6 pm we finally had to retreat to the tent to escape the bugs for a while and plan out our day tomorrow.