Blue Lake.

July 29, 2019

We woke up to the sound of the rain still coming down. After breakfast, we went for a walk in the rain, and enjoyed the wind coming off the lake and watched the waves crashing on the shore.  

Although we could not kayak or swim we decided to make the most of the day. I wanted to secure some campsites ahead of us as we where feeling anxious at times when we could not secure a campsite because of the reservation systems in the provincial parks.  I sent the next three hours researching campgrounds, reserving campsites and planning our various legs along the way.  We had wanted to we spontaneous in our journey, but we found that this was not always possible because of the fact that many campground were pre-booked and the “first come, first served” campgrounds were few and far between. Our next destination was going to be Sleeping Giant campground east of Thunder Bay.  

I was also successful in setting up our inverter in the trailer so that I could keep the computer charged while at non-serviced campsites. We even tried to see if the inverter was powerful enough to run Debbie’s small iron.  She had wanted to do some hand sewing on one of her projects and with the rain it would be a perfect day for do it.  Unfortunately the iron was too powerful for the inverter and it began to smoke!  Not to be held back, we were able to keep her iron hot by putting it on the hot griddle on the stove.  That worked well. 

We met Chris and Carla, a couple from Winnipeg. They are repeat quests at the Park, and are enjoying a family camping get-together. We learned that Chris is an “IT guy” that works at the Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg. Having visited the CHRM, and seeing and using the multi media displays, I felt he was “the man” who could help me with sending out my blogs in areas where we have poor to none WIFI capabilities. Chris patiently explained to me how to us my “hotspot” on my cellphone. It is amazing where you sometimes find these “angels” Carla told Debbie about a quilt shop in Dryden that she should visit. She explained that her mother shops there often and recommended it to Debbie. We spent most of the day indoors, working on the blog, reserving campsites, Debbie sewing and basically catching up on things that we had been ”saving for a rainy day.”

The evening sunset was beautiful over the lake after the rain had stopped and it promised to be a nicer day tomorrow.