2009 Canoe trip - part II

coyote101 · September 03, 2009, 09:52:35 PM

I've been back a month now and thought I'd share a few more photos from Quetico. Man I love that place! Hope you enjoy.

Pat

Shore lunch

Trying to figure out where I'm going

A little paddling

Some fast moving water. We portaged around this.

The take out at a portage

Home for a couple of days

Trying to keep the food away from the bears. (We never saw any)

This eagle's nest was near one of the portages

More paddling

Too much paddling!

The blueberries were in season and we really enjoyed them.

These other berries were pretty dry. No matter how long they soaked, they still tasted like pooh!

It wouldn't be camping without a fire.

Sunset

FinsnFur · September 03, 2009, 09:59:08 PM

Man those are some awesome pictures and that is some breath taking country.

I wanna hear about the weather. How has it been for what your doing? And the mosquito's?.....it looks like it could be pretty thick.

coyote101 · September 03, 2009, 10:29:18 PM

Quote from: FinsnFur on September 03, 2009, 09:59:08 PM
Man those are some awesome pictures and that is some breath taking country.

I wanna hear about the weather. How has it been for what your doing? And the mosquito's?.....it looks like it could be pretty thick.

The weather wasn't very good. We got rained on a couple of times, but that wasn't really the problem. The wind blew like an S.O.B. and we were shore bound on three out of four fishing days. Fortunately, our travel days weren't too bad. The mosquitos were kept pretty much at bay when the wind blew hard, but were brutal some other times. Especially at the beginning and ending of the portages and right around sunset. Thermacells and bug juice with lots of deet controlled the little bastards pretty well.

We strung some tarps as wind breaks and hunkered down behind them.

We got some of this, but the wind was much more of a problem than the rain.

FinsnFur · September 04, 2009, 06:01:16 AM

Another good Thermacell review.

I love mine.

Yeah I bet the wind could whip around those open area pretty wickedly. Thanks for bring us along

alscalls · September 04, 2009, 06:49:54 AM

Took my dial up quite a while to load these...................Worth every minute ......

Thanks for taking us along.

Carolina Coyote · September 04, 2009, 07:07:09 AM

Beautiful scenery,Looks like you guys had a fun trip. But where are the Fish? cc

Frogman · September 04, 2009, 02:01:42 PM

Wow!! Pat,

Looks like a very enjoyable trip.

Jim

HaMeR · September 04, 2009, 02:34:51 PM

You were certainly in some beautiful country.

Thanks for sharing.

ThermaCell-- Never leave home without it!!

pitw · September 04, 2009, 05:33:40 PM

Well that certainly didn't do anything for my mentality right now

. I want to go so bad I can taste it

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Great pics and I enjoyed the whole trip you showed with you

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Hawks Feather · September 04, 2009, 09:07:28 PM

WOW, those are some great shots. Now, as for those berries that didn't taste good. . . . . . .

Jerry

KySongDog · September 05, 2009, 05:19:27 AM

Great pictures Pat! That's some pretty country. Where is Quetico?

coyote101 · September 08, 2009, 05:51:10 AM

Quote from: Semp on September 05, 2009, 05:19:27 AM
Great pictures Pat! That's some pretty country. Where is Quetico?

Semp,

Quetico Provincial Park. Its a million plus acres of wilderness in Canada, just across the border from Minnesota.
www.ontarioparks.com/ENGLISH/quet.html

Pat

vvarmitr · September 08, 2009, 08:02:42 PM

Gotta add something like that to my bucket list!

Thanks so very much for sharing Pat!