Today I was typing out my journal entries from my summer course, and thought that I might as well share them, since they're all nice and typed out. And also, dear readers, this is your one chance to read pieces of my diary, because I am usually too ashamed to let anyone know about all the boring things that I write about.
Here are some clips and corresponding pics from August in the Apostle Islands!
8/17/2013
Camping on Stockton Island tonight, after a day of paddling and sailing. We woke up at 5 am as per usual and dragged out stuff to the beach and had breakfast and paddled to from 8 to 9:30 ish when we started to sail, which was way better for my seasickness. Paddled the last stretch and had a relaxing camp set up and lunch and swim and rest before hiking to the quarry. The only problem is the mosquitos, and also that there is not much time to do the immense loads of reading.
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| Here we are, sailing! |
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| On the beach at Stockton |
8/18/2013
So very buggy. It’s fun to have a home campsite- no lugging huge food bags. Today we had a sleepy morning- slept until 5:40 then ate breakfast then slept again instead of reading. We went to Presque Isle VC and talked with Ranger Dan, then got lunch on Julian Bay and had two hours of free wander time. I had a lovely stroll along Anderson Point Trail, stopping along the shore to take selfies and enjoy the rocks and sun.
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| Ranger Dan! |
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| Yup, selfies. Lots. |
8/20/2013
Heat Advisory Day! Up early as usual, but with a purpose- a 7.5 mile paddle to Manitou Island. I wasn’t feeling so great on the ride over, but was good as soon as we got there. Stared at a tadpole pool for a super long time, then got a tour of the fishing camp from Denise, and I became a Junior Ranger. Then we hiked to some old growth Hemlock and back, lunched at the boats and pushed off for a choppy but enjoyable paddle back to Stockton, where I sprawled on the beach for a while.
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| My beloved tadpole pond. |
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| Ranger Denise telling us about the fishing nets. |
8/25/3013
Paddled from Basswood to Oak, on choppy water but with a tailwind. We stopped by a shipwreck, but only Travis and Elizabeth scoped it out. I was creeped out enough by just floating on top of it. Now we are set up in a beautiful campsite, and have to come up with our full presentation and do a rough run-through.
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| A calm, innocent, Lake Superior. |
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| View from the campsite on Oak Island. |
8/28/2013
Haven’t written in a while, but we’re leaving the camping life today, heading to the city life... Ashland. I’m excited to get back, get my phone, really sit down and figure out my program. I just showered so I don’t really have to worry about that. We packed up at Wilderness Inquiry, listened to Travis’s talk, played frisbee, took a group pic. Yesterday was our last day of paddling, and we left Oak and I sterned to Raspberry. We hiked to the lighthouse, and listening to an amazing interpretive tour by Ranger Jim, that basically exemplified all of the good things that we’ve been learning about interpretation-- he even sang us a lighthouse song. Then the fog was rolling in so we just paddled to Sand Bay, had a nice time in our boat-- good convo, scenery, got to jump in and plank the boat, good stuff. We unloaded at the beach and lugged it to the campsite, the set up camp and started hauling gravel for our service project.
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| The paddle to Raspberry |
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| Ranger Jim after singing his lighthouse song |
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| The last stretch of our trip-- canoe lyfe. |
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| Us! |
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