-Miranda
We also updated our Fell in River, Broke Camera entry with some pictures off of the fixed camera below! Eagle Mountain is @ 47°53'51"N 90°33'39"W
-Joe
Joe and I on top of Eagle Mountain.
The view from top.
There was a plaque at the top as well as this marker.
Even after 7 years since the wind storm in the BWCAW, there is still evidence that it occurred.
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Friends of Joe's, Toan and Thang, came up from the Cities for the day, so we all went up to Soudan to check out some bat caves and go for a little hike. We didn't see any bats, but the three caves we checked out were neat. We were toasty after the hike so we went to an old mine pit nearby to swim. There's a nice cliff there that you can jump off of at many different hieghts. We all went off at least once.
-Miranda
Afterwords, Toan, Thang, Tim and I went out into the woods behind the house and had a Campfire Dinner.
P.S.
Caves Near: 47°49'18"N 92°13'56"W
Nice Cliff Pit: 47°48'35"N 92°15'52"W
-Joe
A cave we explored.
A spider we found near the end of a cave.
The 'cliff' we jumped off of. The ledge is almost halfway up on the left side of the photo.
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Miranda and I paddled an unpopulated stretch of Lake Superior Harbor today. We put in @ 46°41'24"N 92°8'49"W. Nice 3-4mile paddle that started in a swamp and went out into the bay. Found a hidden unmarked campsite @ 46°42'4"N 92°9'46"W. Our general path is shown in purple on the satelite map below.
-Joe
Joe and I saw a frog as soon as we got out of the car. Other animals we saw were deer, a porcupine, Canada Geese, Turkey Vultures, a Belted Kingfisher, and yet another Great Blue Heron. The birds were very noisy also, but I'm a bit rusty on my bird calls.
Here are some pictures with my new camera:
-Miranda
satelite map showing the path we took in purple.
The porcupine climbed into the tree while we were there, so I got out to take some photos.
Joe's wonderful butterfly picture.
The Bong bridge and the old bridge below.
The Belted Kingfisher. He was far away, so this is the best picture I could get.
A lily pad flower with a bug on its petal.
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Miranda Just got her Graduation/etc.. Present. A Low-end Digital SLR Camera. Talk about complicated and expensive!! She's been enjoying taking pictures though, and this should improve the quality of critter shots imensely. Hope to get out tomorrow and test it out!
Olympus E-500 - Digital SLR
-Joe
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UPDATED: July 3rd-
I just updated this entry with the pictures off the broken camera as
we just got the replacement, and now we can both take pictures. Check out the merganser pictures below!
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Bad day. We went for a paddle just south of Island Lake in wetland and then a mucky river. I somehow managed to Tip the canoe while trying to get out and fall into the deep mucky leech-infested water... what a mess. had to swim out after the canoe and all.. Felt the diseases infesting as i raced home for a shower
Prior to that we droped the camera an inch onto the bottom of the boat and it died... So gonna put a hamper on our updates while we hopefully get a warranty replacement.. -Joe
This is a wetland we figured had to have critters! Nothing really though... The outer circle makes roughly a 1 mile long paddle. Lots of Pitcher plants.
Common Mergansers in the Island Lake wetland, about the only life there.
Blue dragonfly posing.
Crazy looking bug on Miranda's pants! What is it? Anyone know?
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