Thursday, July 19, 2018 Today dawned cool and cloudy, with rain threatening to the west. Still warm, but the crew elected to lay around the camp. Alex made hashbrowns and eggs and coffee (cocoa for Nick), a goodly supply of wood was brought in and cut by Jesse with formidable assistance from Nick, who found his stride sawing after some practice. He loves to saw wood....yay!

The rain came, and the rain went, and the crew decided to putz around the lake and explore.....nope, you can't really get down/up any of the streams, but we stopped in the burn area across the lake for lunch and BINGO! Nick named it Blueberrytopia. We picked and ate and picked some more. Amelia figured out the hang of it, and what a blueberry plant looked like, and we brought back at least a quart of berries for later. The eagles that live nearby spent lots of time in the few remaining jackpine and birch skeletons there, looking for small things to wander through the blueberries, I imagine.

It's been 7 years since the Pagami Creek fire, and the burn area is a wealth of life- blueberries, raspberries, shoulder high lush jackpines, fireweed. You can tell that there's a lot going on there.

Alex made chicken wild rice soup and biscuits for dinner, and got the hang of the jello mold oven pretty quickly. This time when we heard the mysterious noise from the woods we hit the tent before our company arrived!