Just the four of us

We went camping last week to Hecla Island.  Why, because we haven’t been there before.

We enjoyed the wildlife.  L kept a list: a muskrat, frogs, snails, bald eagles, pelicans, cormorants, sea gulls

 and even a white tailed deer.

Hecla Island in in Lake Winnipeg, I didn’t realize that it could feel so much like the ocean.  We had lunch beside the crashing waves,

after lunch we played on the rocks and we all got splashed!

 Lowell showed L and K how much fun it is to play with rocks.  He taught L how to skip stones and how to build a cairn.  Lowell provides the structural support, L the architectural details and K the beauty.

 

 The water was beautiful,

 and the hiking a unique adventure.

Otter Falls

Unlike the last long weekend when we tried to go camping, this long weekend was beautiful.  Of course there was some rain Saturday morning.  Kira woke to the sound of rain on the tent, with eyes that could barely stay open she groaned “It’s raining!” and then she fell back to sleep.  What else do you do when it is raining and you have had your fill of camping in the rain?

This was the view from our campsite. It was really nice to sit around a campfire beside the water and listen to the Loons.

We fished, but didn’t catch anything worth keeping.

We got wet in the water (it was cold!) and then played at the beach.

 The kids had a great time playing at the playground.  Turns out that when they weren’t talking about Minecraft they were building their empires in the sand.

We hiked the Pine Point Rapids trail again this year.  It works well for our family and the rapids are a nice place to rest half way through. Here we all are with our tired feet.  Poor L hardly made it, I didn’t realize that his shoes were so small already.

Monday on the way home we stopped at Old Pinawa Dam to enjoy the sites and to have our picnic lunch.  We hadn’t been there before, but I am glad that we went.

 We climbed places we weren’t supposed to climb and influenced our children to do the same.

 Actually one was more than willing and the other one we pushed up the wall.  In his defense he was impatient to find the geocache.