Wilderness Camping

I'm going to post a few photos of the camping trip. We were dropped off on a remote set of Islands in Lake Superior and camped for 4 nights.  My roommate/friend, her brother and I.  It was really nice to be out with other people, as in my previous three trips (2012, 2013, 2016) it's just been me and my furry yellow friend.

I did my usual resting in beautiful places (my tent, our "private" beach, the dock).  I also overdid it on purpose a few times.  The water was quite calm for Lake Superior and we were camped in a protected area so we did quite a bit of exploring by canoe (the bugs were too bad for hiking and I'm unable to hike anyways).

When I canoe with someone I can mostly just steer and make them do the paddling so it worked out pretty well although my arms did get weak and shaky and the second day I was pretty crashed and viral and weak. I've learned after 15 years with M.E that when you manage to travel that nothing changes in regards to illness. In my experience, the travel induces a crash and then otherwise the illness is the same except that I am sick in a different place.

There are no words to describe just how beautiful Lake Superior is.  The water is so clear that you can sometimes see 20 ft down to the bottom.  I enjoyed the nightly companionship by the campfire, one night I got up to pee and lay down on the dock.  I saw three meteors (two with tails) and a sky so full of stars it was breath taking.  We didn't see caribou (which I guess is unusual) but I saw or heard many many birds:

nuthatches
loons
robins
a hawk
bald eagle
sea gulls
ravens
whiskey jack (Canada Jay)
white throated sparrow
pipers

We were also visited by tame hares in camp (someone obviously fed them).  I didn't want to leave the last day.  I knew it would be a year, maybe years until I could return to a place of peace and lack of responsibility like this place again.

Now I am home in bed resting and reading for my upcoming course. I have some major intestinal distress, I wonder if I caught a bug given my immune system (WBC low) is compromised? I'm spending most the day you know where and my lymph nodes just ache.  Anyways, on to the slide show....enjoy

Sunset: Two kinds of fire 

Camp visitor

A geologic feature called "shatter cones" - looked like a big cliff to me

"parked" in a field of daisies, you can see an old wrecked lumber barge 

View from an old copper mine shaft

My happy place

I think this is called "Indian Pipe"

We even paddled a little exposed coastline with "sea" on three sides

"my" beach, I spent hours here

Early morning solo paddle 

Not a bad view from bed

Bye bye Slate Is.