I was very grumpy when I walked in the cabin and they were doing a Bible study without me!! I had not slept well and was staying in bed out of sheer pain and no one even came to check on me. :( We did our Bible study and prayed then Bernie showed up to do the electric. Scott and Dad continued to bury the electric line. They dug it exactly 18 inches with appropriate red tape. Then they exploded water out of the well-house and moved the water line over the electric. Meanwhile, Nana and I shaved our legs then I worked on weeding the beach. I will probably regret it later... Grandpa came down with the weed-eater and chopped off a lot of that grass. Then we had chili for lunch but we had to microwave it because Bernie turned off our crockpot.
Then N & G took nap while Scott and I headed out on a kayak excursion. It was marvelous!! While I was waiting for Scott I tried to stalk the turtle I kept seeing. Then a loon popped up so I decided to stalk him instead. He headed toward the little island in front of Bear Trail. When he went under I paddled toward where he last was. When he came up I would stop paddle and take pictures of him. We headed toward the leeward side of Paradise Island. We stopped at the beach so Scott could rest. I took pictures of him, butterflies and a bird - I think was a kingfisher. The we headed over to Eagle Island. There were at LEAST ten eagles. It was a blast taking pictures. There were a bunch of magpies but I didn't get a picture of them. When we got around Scott climbed out on a cool rock. Then around the corner I saw three mergansers, I was distracted by them and almost missed an old guy in the tree. I got a great picture of the bald eagle because I was pretty much right below him in my kayak. Then we chased the mergansers on our way back to Paradise Island but they flew away. On the windward side of Paradise I found my loon buddy who lets me get really, really close. After getting a bunch of pictures of him I saw N & G heading back toward the dock in their double kayak so I whistled and they headed back. Amazingly that did not scare Mr. Loony. When they got close they pointed toward the bay. There was a young doe eating in the water. I paddled really close to her. Only paddling when she was eating and then stopping when she looked up. I got some fun pictures. We all headed back and then went for a swim. Scott, Nana and I swam about half way to the island today. Then Nana and I took our baths.
A little while later after eating some leftovers and getting minnows we headed out to Three Towers. We did not even get a bite, then we headed to Pufahl's Rock. Scott caught perch and Dad caught a very small walleye. Next we went out to the Back Channel. I decided to fish for the first time this year and went for a minnow only to find the bucket completely missing. I asked Scott where they were and he pointed to an empty spot. He had thrown them in the lake without tying them to the boat. We looked back and saw the minnows bobbing about 50 feet back. Dad asked the other boat if they needed some minnows and not one of them even cracked a smile. But after they caught a couple humongous walleye we had to listen to the same five guys cuss using the f word for hours. We did not have one bite but we did get the radio to work. We listened to one station we get to tune in but it was still better then their conversation. On the way home, we made one fisherman angry because we crossed in his casting zone. Then another sped past with a 300 horse motor - show off! When we get back there was this:
The good thing was that we did not have to fillet fish in the mosquito ridden lake. Nana forced Scott and I to play Euchre. She won but every time she dealt she had a Bauer. Now I'm going to bed... Scott actually gets to sleep in my room tonight because we have electricity. It will test evening to see if he can stay there the rest of the trip.
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