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August 24, - declared a duff day!
For those of you that go to the BWCA you are excited to see this and you know what that means. For those of you that have not traveled with us to the BWCA I shall make a short explanation. On BWCA days you canoe – portage – canoe – portage all day until you find the perfect camp site! The new kids that come with us inevitably will say after the first day, “What we are packing up and moving? This is such a nice site. Where are we going? How long will it take? I’m too tired and don’t want to pack up again…” etc.. the grumbling and confusion might continue depending on the child. We answer with, “There are places to go and things to see and excitement to be discovered!”
By the 3 or 4th day of doing this we wake up and declare, “Today is a duff day!” the experienced kids cheer the new kids say what is a duff day? A day to pick what you want to do… Some will hike and explore the area, some will seek out water falls to jump off of or cliffs to climb or blueberries to pick… yet some will stay at camp and read – eat – cook – play cards.
Today is a duff day! We have slept in, read books, cooked yummy food, (Ahh some of you are wondering what is yummy… well we still have fresh food from our provisioning just a few days ago… so we have cream for our coffee! That’s really all we need to make it a great food day. Then we look at what perishables are left? Eggs and kefir - we had scrambled eggs with kefir and cheese with dried basil and fried onions! Yummm plus a little of ruby red grapefruit juice a luxury I’m sure I have taken for granted in my past life. For lunch Grilled zucchini and onion put in a sandwich and grilled with cheese. (a grilled cheese zucchini onion sandwich) with potato chips and water with a lime for tasty goodieness. Eat like kings and queens cuz soon it will be back to dried food and can food and coffee without cream.
Now is blog time and soon Ben and I will kayak in 25 knot winds but little waves cuz we are in a protected hurricane hole… we will then kayak around to find seals and land and excitement for the day…
We waited till the nights calming winds to kayak. At dusk we set out to explore around Penobscot island in seal bay. We did not see any seals but we did see adorable raccoons on the shore eating mussels… they tried to crack them open. They are not as good as opening mussels as the seagulls that grab a mussel and fly up in the sky to drop them on a rock in hopes it will crack open.
As we kayaked around we were at low tide changing to high tide. As we paddled in against a slight tidal current through a small natural canal the water stopped and ebbed out. We were in muck. Muck and mud all around us. Ben said, “Lets just wait for the tide to come up and take us through.” It can’t be long since you can watch the tide rise 2 feet an hour so 6 inches every 15 minutes that would be plenty water for us to continue kayaking through.
The sunset was bright red with nice clouds to touch the sky with glorious beauty. We paddled in the dark. When we set out we were not going to go around the island just go to the canal and back but who could resist. Now here we are with out a map and many islands around us. I remember counting on the map that there are 2 inlets and the 3 inlet is really a passage between two islands’ and that is the one we want. I counted one… two… but was the second one really an inlet or just a bay? Now I was not sure. Ben did not look at the map but he was sure it was not the right inlet that turned into a canal. So north we went. (don’t worry we were not lost just taking a path we did not expect taking.) when we missed the passage we knew cuz we kept going along a string of islands until we knew exactly where we were… a bit further than I wanted to travel that night but exercise is exercise.
I was tired and happy to sleep…. ahhhh
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