General Update
Well what a stormy night last night/this morning, thankfully it blew through while all of us were still in bed, happy to say though that we won’t be having a fire ban any time soon. Despite hot dry weather early on this summer we have managed to have the right amount of rain keeping things just wet enough.
Today we bid farewell to four trips, Cdb A, Cdb B, WLIT,s and Juniors. Both Cdb trips are in the local area and will return in 8 days. Both trips looked great, the routes very interesting including one that is a bit of a Pioneering route for us (not to be confused with a Pioneer route). The Cdb B’s (David, Jesse, Sam, Austin, Elia, Paul and Alex) left before breakfast (they had an early breakfast) and travelled into Red Squirrel Lake, Red Pine Lake, Jack Pine Lake, Chambers Lake, then west to Kokoko Bay, from there they have two choices both of which involve some of Lake Temagami and some smaller lakes off of it, returning on the 28th. I am sure the campers will be very proud of their accomplishment when it’s finished. The Cdb A’s (Anna, Mildri, Elise, Nowlan, Nathan, Cooper, Anthony and Mathew) are travelling from camp, into Diamond, Lady Evelyn, Lady Eve River, Anima Nippissing Lake, Red Squirrel Lake then out to Ferguson Bay on Lake Temagami and finally under the bridge on the 28th. They two will be feeling proud of their accomplishments.
The WLIT’s are starting their 7 day whitewater course today, complete with tandem and solo boats. The focus here is not on distance but on whitewater skills. They are on the Dumoine River in Quebec and they will paddle in on the 27th as the end of the first month draws to a close.
The juniors left today and are camped at Ferguson Point on Lake Temagami for their first night. A few of the juniors are here for one week and some are here for two weeks. All of the juniors will travel tomorrow to Pickerel Bay on Lake Temagami where they will portage over to Whitefish Bay. Once the portage is done the two week juniors will continue on for two more nights while the one week juniors will return to camp as they will be going home on Friday – where does the time go. The two week Juniors will return to camp the morning the new Juniors are due to arrive, just enough time to get cleaned up and ready to welcome the new campers.
We should mention that the Temagami’s will leave for 6 days starting tomorrow. They will travel from camp through to the Canton Lakes then down through Obabika and finally back up Temagami to camp. They are pretty excited tonight holding down camp all by themselves.
Overall the other trips seem to be doing well. We do operate on the no news is good news philosophy. We do get from time to time a SPOT from the trips giving us their location and all of the trips are on schedule and where they are supposed to be, always nice to know.
Well that’s all for this update. Until the next time,
Woody and JJ, Directors, Camp Wanapitei