July 21, 2017 Friday

 We had a late night and had to get up before 6am to see Janet off. Dad went to Dryden because the tire that he paid to get fixed was flat. The rest of us went back to bed. Around 9AM we got up and did our Bible study and then it started to rain. We were all sitting around doing nothing in the afternoon and the rain had cleared. All of our radars and forecasts said something different. I convinced them that we should head out because other boats were heading out and it was probably our last chance. We ate dinner first and then hopped in the fishing boats. We started at Three Towers around 7PM but only had a couple perch bites. Then we headed out to Tugboat Island where we didn’t have much luck fishing but there were three loons that were hanging sort of close. We talked to a group of people in three canoes that were returning from a week’s trip to Fisher Island. Mom was casting with a broken fishing pole. It was very entertaining. At one point, Dad and I turned just in time to see her cast forward and the lure fly backward and bounce off the top of her head. We had some fun with that one. There were now four loons together and we watched a fifth one fly up and land with them. I told Dad I wouldn’t mind if he headed toward the loons. He actually did - we got so close and we were all mesmorized!! We had never seen five loons interacting like that together and they let us get SOOOO close. We even went all the way around them once. It was fabulous. I took about two hundred pictures and then my stupid battery died.

We went on to the entrance of Peskimong and trolled on the way back at mom’s insistence. I think her main objective was to lose her broken pole… she never succeeded. Then we headed home. It was a cold fast ride… we passed the Back Channel, Boat Island, Canoe Island, Sunset Island, and Paradise Island. The sun was about four minutes from it’s official set time.

We were eaten alive by mosquitos after our baths and we headed up to the cabin. Unbelievably, Dad said he would play cards with us so we played one round of Euchre before we all headed off to bed.