2015 Canoe Camping
A long trip means a lot of documentation.
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- Day 1! The girls’ car, aka the super-fun car that also doesn’t drive 120kph on a winding gravel road. I’m just sayin’.
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- Jiayin: professional sleeper, honing her craft.
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- Arrived in the park, just before setting off on the great paddle.
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- My paddle’s keen and bright, flashing with silver…
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- Anyone have a problem with us using ALL our duct tape to repair the tarp? No? Good.
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- Let it be known that at one point, the tarp was a pretty good shelter.
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- …But even with all that tape, it just didn’t hold up.
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- Teamwork is key when camp cooking. Jaimee learned how to cut up basically EVERY vegetable…
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- While Jiayin focused only on potatoes.
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- And hard-working Camille ensured even marination of the veggies
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- Best. Marination. Ever.
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- Fried potatoes on the stove, while the fire is busy cooking the steaks.
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- Contemplating a mosquito-free existence down by the water.
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- The “manly” “providers” who paddled to the far side to fetch some fire wood.
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- Jaimee, you need a time out. GO TO YOUR ROCK.
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- Once it starts raining and you go into a tent to play cards, basically all bets are off with respect to “normal”.
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- Day 2! Breakfast bagel and breakfast dishwater.
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- Sipping coffee and being chauffered around on the lake by Dr B. is a great way to avoid the bugs.
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- There was Jaimee, Jaimee, poking at the flame-y (in the Quarter master’s store)
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- Day trip to High Falls, seen from above.
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- The glorious High Falls. At this point, everyone announced their intention to slide down the falls, except Camille, who flat-out refused.
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- Naturally, Dr. B. went right down the falls.
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- The whirlpool was a very cold, little bit terrifying hot tub.
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- Also lots of fun – when you lift your feet, it bobs you around like a cork. Getting out is the hard part.
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- After experiencing the terror of the High Falls whirlpool.
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- Napping by the falls after sliding down ’em. Still, no one else has gone.
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- Somehow, after all the big talk…only Camille had the guts to go down the falls. 3 times. We’re pretty sure Dan didn’t swim at all.
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- Left a plastic spider on Jaimee’s pillow. “You guys, I’m freaking out!”
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- Toasted marshmallows for s’mores – a camping prerequisite.
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- DON’T TAKE MY PICTURE!
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- Yes, the ukulele came on the trip, and Camille provided the soundtrack.
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- Dan “making” water for the remarkably successful spaghetti.
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- How many scientists does it take to saw a log in half, if half of them are eating s’mores? We now know the answer.
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- Mother nature knows her biz.
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- The rare sunshine we caught on our second day camping.
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- …And then it was gone.
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- Yes, we had sparklers.
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- Yes, we had glowstick bracelets. (Wondertwin powers, activate!)
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- Yes, we had Dr. B. and Dan: The stuff of nightmares.
