Aug 2, 2023 Killarney

Our new go-to camping breakfast now involves eggs. They are one or two days old (from our chickens) and dehydrated. They get rehydrated and fried in the morning.

And dehydrated hash brown potatoes with bacon bits. Usually I buy the potatoes...but I've been experimenting with dehydrating them myself, too. But not the bacon. I will just keep buying that. It's a really tasty breakfast.

We had the option of staying at our campsite all day, or heading off to Silver Peak. Philip wasn't feeling well, but I was dumb and said let's go anyways!

We went in two canoes, so we'd have more paddling power on the way back.

Off we headed into the bush. I thought I packed lots of water. All of our bottles full, this time.

I love the open rock we have to travel through on the way across...it's sooo beautiful. Pretty hot today though.

We have to kind of go around this lake, and up to the top of the hill on the other side.

We found lots of ripe blueberries there. So delicious!

Matthew chipped in extra by carrying the day pack...it's not a small matter to carry all that water, plus lunch...and odds and ends of things we may need during the day.

Daniel Matthew and I went on ahead, determined to make it to the peak while Jennifer and Evelyn, who had been complaining (a lot) stayed behind with Philip...who was going fairly slowly...still not feeling super amazing. We hiked hard and fast, stopping for some short breaks, drinking water but trying to save a little for the way back.

We made it!

At a cost. Daniel was overheating at the top. Some other hikers donated half a liter of water to me, which I used to wipe Daniel down with every minute or so, and sat him in the shade. Heat exhaustion. Eventually he turned a more normal colour and gained some energy back.

After about ten minutes the other the girls and Philip showed up. Apparently slow and steady does win the race. We all took our time going down again, limping along with hardly any water, using it sparingly.

We came near a pitiful stream...but it was too dirty so the filter would not cooperate. We had to just keep going all the way to the canoes to filter the lake water...then we all made sure to have a nice long drink!

At last! We all made it safely back to our campsite. Tired out. So happy to be back.