Friday, August 12, 2016
***Life happened and I left off here for eight months. Forgive the lack of detail in the remainder.***

Exhausted after the long haul of the day before, we all slept in and relaxed – complete with a fire show and facemasks in the evening. We explored the peninsula our campsite sat on and I found some excellent rocks that dropped off into deep water on the western end. I caught a nice smallie with the TGO method just off one of these rocks.

In the afternoon three of us paddled out to explore Malberg. We headed up into the northern arm where we’d heard there was a beach. We found it and I dropped off the other two while I paddled around trying out the basketball-net anchor and fishing the basin of that northern arm. No luck. I picked them up and we paddled through the smaller fingers on the northern arm. I caught a pike or two and we saw a very large rock formation that has been pointed out by lindylair on this forum.

That evening we experimented with some just-add-water pasta… We had brought tomato sauce packets, though we hadn’t read the instructions, which called for tomatoes! We just combined it with water, added our summer sausage and plenty of parmesan cheese. The result was a gooey mess which confused our taste buds, but after someone called it “Pizza Soup” we just imagined the taste in slice form and it was delicious.

~Malberg Lake