Friday, July 02, 2021 – Today is our “Down Day” or “Zero Day”. We take the opportunity to sleep late (till 7 AM). After breakfast, we head out in the canoes to explore the area and try some fishing. Monique is new to fishing and James is showing her the basics – tying the lure on, casting and reeling it back in. Cyd & I take one of the canoes and circumnavigate the island. Cyd catches a few bass. We head across toward Canada to a beach area. Cyd & I get out and take a swim to cool off. I hear James yell, “You’re in Canada”. Woops, I forgot about the Covid travel restrictions. Luckily, there are no Mounties lurking in the woods and we’re able to cross back to the U.S. without incident.
At 5 PM, James, Monique, and I head back out to get some fish for dinner. I lose my lucky Mepps spinner when a bass breaks the line. We still manage to catch a bass and a Northern Pike which combined with a bass Cyd caught earlier will be our dinner along with Monique’s Thai noodles.
Cyd and Kathy worked on tonight’s dessert while we were fishing. It’s Cyd’s recipe from Backpacker Magazine for “Brownie in an Orange” made by scraping the juice and pulp from an orange, then filling it with brownie mix, wrapping in foil and cooking in the coals. The dinner and dessert are quite good and filling and soon we are frantically trying to get the food bags up in the trees before the mosquitoes come out. Kathy says, “I’m pretty tired considering this was a rest day”.
In the tent, I read for a while waiting for it to cool down. The loons are calling out on the lake.