It's always reassuring to find the food pack hanging undisturbed in the morning. We don't always manage to hang it quite high up enough, but we try.
The wind has died down and we are expecting it to warm up as the day goes on. It's nice to soak up the sunshine.
After a morning of church together, we head off into a really small lake (up a tiny waterfall) to where there is a hiking trail, and hopefully a nice view.
The portage is maybe 20 meters. And we only have the canoes and one backpack to carry over.
Such a beautiful day!
We start on the portage trail until we bump into the hiking trail. A beautiful trail through the woods.
The hiking trail starts heading upwards. We stop for a water break, and a number of us start peeling off some layers as we have warmed up!
It gets even steeper. What a fun trail to climb!
And the view! We look to the south(ish) and admire where the portage trial heads to. A super tiny little pond, followed by yet another long portage. And another pond/lake and another long portage. We doubt that very many people actually head through that route, it looks like an awful lot of work!
The trail keeps going on, but there is no more open views, so we head back to our canoes.
And pick up our sweaters and coats.
Relaxing back at the campsite.
When we were hunting for firewood we came across this gravestone. Partway up a really steep hillside. Or partway down? Whatever is a gravestone doing over here? It's obviously not sitting on top of a grave. We ponder this, but don't know what might have happened.
Melanie and I hike up to the top of the "mountains" that you can view across the water from our campfire. It's a pretty steep hike to get up there!
But we made it!!
The view is lovely! It's a great lake. And I guess this must be the mountain, as it's the highest place around.
We made it up! (It was pretty tricky to find a safe route!)
On the way down I bumped into a bees nest and sort of abandoned Melanie in my hurry to put a bit of distance between me and the angry bees. Fortunately she was able to scramble up fast enough, while I went down fast enough. And neither of us got stung. And we found each other back again. And the campsite.
Nathan has been working hard on his walking stick.
Matthew decided to make a dagger/knife.
He thinks I better be nice to him now. (Or course, I always am!)
Melanie made an owl and a moon.
Evelyn decided to bond with me.
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