Over the 5 days we were out we saw a total of 62 loons give or take. At one point on Wakimika Lake we saw 15 at once! This one was sitting on the nest so I could get really close as I went by.
This truck was just off the lake by the Obabika Inlet on a really overgrown logging road.
I was lucky to be accompanied by two kids who loved to fish even more than me and seeing as how I caught a bunch of pike on this trip when I was 15 we were eager to get to the "promised lake" which I promised was full of dumb big pike. After and hour of nothing, just on our way out Henry locked into this beauty.
About and hour later up the river just above a beaver dam I was lucky enough to snag my own pike weighing in at 5 pounds 9 ounces. I think my scale is wrong....
Just before we got the tail end of a big storm. My tent withstood the wind all night. Why I consistently set it up on the very point of the campsite and then worry all night about it blowing away remains a mystery.
This was one of our "family portraits" gone wrong on Diamond Lake on day 3. That day we got to sail a few kilometers which is always nice.
The last evening delivered big wind and an absolutely stunning sunset. These pictures don't really do it justice.
On day 4 I didn't flip over my map until we had already started setting up camp so I didn't realize how far we still had to go for the pickup the next day but thanks to an early start and a HUGE tail wind we cruised towards the location with time to spare so we went on a hike along some trials of Temagami old growth. The red and white pines weren't impressively large in girth but what was stunning was that they didn't taper, they were like 5 or 6 ft across all the way to the top practically and the top was WAY up there.
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