Sunday, September 11, 2016

We rose early the final morning! I was actually packing up the tent before the sun came up. We were a little leery of what the wind was going to do today, plus we had a duck tape canoe paddle. We wolfed down our oatmeal and coffee, and made it to the south side of Lake Agnes as the fog was till burning off the lake. We enjoyed a nice quiet paddle through the rivers, seeing plenty of wildlife including Trumpeter Swans and an American Black Duck.

We made great time even with the bum paddle. The wind did start to pick up as we hit the southern end of Nina Moose. By then, we really didn't care because all we head now was some river paddling between us and the vehicles. As we portaged our stuff to the parking lot, we ran into a group going in on a loop trip. They were going to loop around to EP14. One guy was driving the vehicle up to that parking lot and then taking a bike back to meet his group. Neat idea! We got one of their group members to take a group photo, before we headed back to Ely.

We had another unbelievable trip! Lake Agnes and the surrounding area has been the place of so many great memories with many people. This year's trip was no exception. One of the things we decided for next year was to give Agnes a break. We are going to break our annual tradition and go in on Stuart next fall. It will give us the possibility to day trip up to Iron Lake, and really give us a chance to explore all Stuart has to offer. I will sure miss Agnes, but new adventures are always fun too. We will be back soon, old friend, I promise!