We had a great trip - good weather, hardly any bugs, no goshawk attacks (see below). Julia spent some time sleeping. We saw lots of cool animals - a luna moth, a moose, some birds and frogs. We circumnavigated the island on the Voyageur and drank their free coffee every time. We made friends with Dreadlocks Girl and Pike Boy and some sediment corers from Pennsylvania. We ate some of Pike Boy's fish and chased it with nutella s'mores - best invention ever (copyright, team us). We canoed and swam in Lake Superior and hiked on the Greenstone trail.
Lacking from these photos are pictures of us obsessively reading our Nevada Barr mystery novel set on Isle Royale (we were too engrossed to even think of photodocumentation). We spent quite a bit of time reading it out loud. Luckily there were 3 of us so even when we went canoeing the middle person could read. That Anna Pigeon, she's always up to something. It was an entertaining read, anyway, if you want to check it out!
McCargo Cove, our first stop
Luna moth
Headed out to Birch Island for the first night
At the shelter - there are TONS of tiger swallowtails flying around, if you can spy them in this picture
At our first points - we put in a solid 18 minutes of work at this place
Snaaaake! It's a snaaake!
Really?
Applesauce to-go
Rock Harbor, to get ready for a backpack trip
We know this ferry well
All packed up
Another site, another 18 minutes of work
The hike out in the eeearly morning
Lizzie protects us from goshawk attack
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