may not-long-enough weekend

so what to do may long? well the plan actually started the weekend before, on the beaver lake mission. after seeing the sweet island camp spot, that became our may long goal. tom, patrick and i packed up friday night and headed to the beaver lake rec site. which we found totally full at 7pm when we got there. no worries, we headed to another spot that tom and i saw the weekend before. when we got there, we found the hugest redneck party ever, so we doubled back and found a quiet spot next to a creek. it would do for the night. up went the tens and out came the food and beverages.

the tents in spot 1.  it was cold that night

pat and i in the morning, getting ready to move to the island

saturday morning, we woke up and tom and i took our tents and stuff to our island paradise.  we did some fishing on the way back to camp 1.  i got 2 rainbow trouts.  then i hoped in the truck and pat hoped in the canoe with tom.  I headed to the rec site with the truck and tom and pat headed to the campsite.  then pat came and picked me up from there.  3 people and 1 canoe.  a little weird sometimes, but we made it work.

the road to and from spot 1.

Once we were all on the island, we proceeded to get comfy.

tom, getting comfy.

Shortly after we were all settled, wayne shows up.  what a sweet surprise.  he brought his 2 dogs and the 7 of us (4 people, 3 dogs) we all proceeded to get more comfy.

our spot.  all settled in.

We fished all day, and ate fish too.  I finished with 8 fish.  tom got one too.  Patrick and charlie were fishing in the canoe when i woke up.  calm lake was sweet.

pat, charlie and the "log cabin"

wayne exploring the limits of our kingdom

breakfast was a 3 hour affair.  with bagels, bacon, sausage and of course fish.

wayne manning the frying pan.  he's a good guy to have along.

dog chilling on a log.  looks like he's taking a shit...he's not.

most comfy spot.

A great trip with a great group of adventurers. 

group shot.  me, tom, wayne and patrick

it was raining a little on the paddle back.  not enough to get us wet or dampen the sweet trip.

charlie and patrick on the paddle back

charlie sleeping in my driveway

a little google earth map

11 fish, 2 nights, and about 50km of canoeing later the trip was done.  a great first camp of the year.  and im starting to get the hang of this fishing thing.  More next weekend, i hope.  We got room for more, you should come.