Friday, September 18, 2009

Mooselookmeguntic Lake Labor Day weekend

Hi everyone! Sorry it's been so long since our last post, but school has started and my extra time went BYEBYE. This post is from Labor Day weekend, when Ben and I and our friends Geoff and Beth went canoe camping on Lake Mooselookmeguntic in northern Maine.
There are primitive campsites all along the lake that you can only get to by boat, and ours was so sweet! If you can remember back to that weekend, you will remember how amazing the weather was! Beautiful sunny (but cool) days and clear, Full Moon nights.


Geoff was the expert cairn builder...

Ben doing what he does best...relaxin!


Geoff and Beth for our sunset cruise...
We had a lot of fun practicing canoe rescues during the day...dumping our canoe and using the other canoe to get the water out. Let's just say that I lost my sunglasses and ended up dumping the canoe later in the day by accident and Ben's stuff got wet...oops!





So much glorious sunshine and blue skies...
We did do some fishing, but we mostly reeled in these smaller fish called Fallfish (largest member of the Minnow family...) I still have to get even with those Pickerel that got the best of me on Lake Umbagog!

Geoff and Beth's cool sunset swim...

The evenings were very calm, but during the day the wind made paddling much more difficult. We only had a few small trips out onto the lake during the day. But luckily the nights made up for that!
Moonrise over the lake...the loons were calling and our fire crackling...awesome!
We had some awesome fires there...which were very necessary considering how cold it was at night.
Highly recommend staying at the Stephen Phillips Memorial Preserve in Oquossoc, Maine!








































































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