Honeymoon Trip
by PixiePaddler
Trip Type:
Paddling Canoe
Entry Date:
07/02/2008
Entry Point:
Fall Lake (EP 24)
Exit Point:
Mudro Lake (EP 23)
Number of Days:
7
Group Size:
2
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Day 4 of 7
Saturday, July 05, 2008
The sun shining into our tent woke us this morning. After a leisurely breakfast, we headed toward Thursday Bay. We had the poles out the whole way and caught some nice fish on Crooked Lake. The wind was picking up and by the time we got to Thursday, we weren’t up to fighting it again. So, we pulled into a little cove to eat lunch, fish, and wait out the wind. It only got worse and we decided to set up camp for the evening. We only traveled a couple miles today, but, hey….who needs to worry about schedules in here, right? We set up on an island at the mouth of Thursday Bay. Our campsite came with a complimentary fly swatter. We figured out why really quickly. We piddled around the island all afternoon in about 90 degree heat. The fish weren’t biting. We had hoped to catch enough for a dinner and were about to give up when Mark hooked a nice pike. He wanted to catch it so bad that he said he would “wrestle it if necessary” and after all was said and done…he did! What a fun sight to watch (and photograph!).
We enjoyed our first dinner of fried fish tonight. It was yummy!
Being novice in the BWCA, we had no idea about all the bugs we would experience. Being from Kansas, we are very familiar with mosquitoes. It was about this time of our trip that I started realizing that I was being attacked by a new villain. At the time I thought Minnesota had some wicked mosquitoes! Little did I know at the time, they weren’t mosquitoes. They were black flies. We had no idea how to avoid the little critters or even when they were biting me. Needless to say, it didn’t take too long to figure out the avoiding part (I am a college educated woman after all!). By the time we figured it out…I looked pretty bad and was pretty miserable.
No alarm clocks….heaven!
The sun shining into our tent woke us this morning. After a leisurely breakfast, we headed toward Thursday Bay. We had the poles out the whole way and caught some nice fish on Crooked Lake. The wind was picking up and by the time we got to Thursday, we weren’t up to fighting it again. So, we pulled into a little cove to eat lunch, fish, and wait out the wind. It only got worse and we decided to set up camp for the evening. We only traveled a couple miles today, but, hey….who needs to worry about schedules in here, right? We set up on an island at the mouth of Thursday Bay. Our campsite came with a complimentary fly swatter. We figured out why really quickly. We piddled around the island all afternoon in about 90 degree heat. The fish weren’t biting. We had hoped to catch enough for a dinner and were about to give up when Mark hooked a nice pike. He wanted to catch it so bad that he said he would “wrestle it if necessary” and after all was said and done…he did! What a fun sight to watch (and photograph!).
We enjoyed our first dinner of fried fish tonight. It was yummy!
Being novice in the BWCA, we had no idea about all the bugs we would experience. Being from Kansas, we are very familiar with mosquitoes. It was about this time of our trip that I started realizing that I was being attacked by a new villain. At the time I thought Minnesota had some wicked mosquitoes! Little did I know at the time, they weren’t mosquitoes. They were black flies. We had no idea how to avoid the little critters or even when they were biting me. Needless to say, it didn’t take too long to figure out the avoiding part (I am a college educated woman after all!). By the time we figured it out…I looked pretty bad and was pretty miserable.
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