CANOE TRIP REPORT. August 2022. (Part 2 of 3)

TRIP REPORT. PART # 2. This was a canoe trip with my former college roommate (Joel) from August 14-21, 2022. As noted in Part # 1 of the trip report, we had spent the night of August 16th at the Lake Richie Canoe Campground. Our PLAN for August 17th was to paddle across part of Lake Richie--portage to Intermediate Lake ---paddle across Intermediate Lake to the portage to Siskiwit Lake --then paddle a long distance on Siskiwit Lake to the portage for Malone Bay and spend the night at Malone Bay. However, (as I shared in a separate post) we found the portage from Lake Richie to Intermediate Lake "blocked". Thus, our plans changed. After failing to use the "blocked" portage to Intermediate Lake, we eventually paddled the other direction on Lake Richie and got out at the portage near the "regular" Lake Richie Campground--and portaged approximately 2.1 miles to Moskey Basin. On August 17th, we only portaged the canoe roughly 0.5 miles of he 2.1 mile portage. We then continued on to Moskey Basin with just our packs and spent the night there. We would go back the next morning for the canoe. (Why be in such a rush to carry everything all at once?).

The shelters and individual tent sites at Moskey Basin were all full. Thus, we went to the overflow area in the group site. There were 12 of us who camped there by the end of the night. (Five different parties, in six tents and one hammock --with a tarp). We enjoyed people's company and took the time to relax a bit. It rained overnight. The next morning (August 18th), we went back to pick up the canoe. We brought it to Moskey Basin. We broke camp and easily canoed to Daisy Farm in approximately 50 minutes. We stopped to take a break at Daisy Farm. As we took our break, dark clouds approached and there was some rain. There was a forecast for possible thunderstorms. So, we decided to stay in a shelter at Daisy Farm the night of August 18th.

Later in the day, the weather cleared. So we paddled across from Daisy Farm to the Edison Fishery and Rock Harbor Lighthouse. John Buckley (one of the summer caretakers there), invited us ashore. We took photos of the fishery and visited the lighthouse. Candy Peterson also showed up at the fishery and invited us to paddle next door and visit the "Moos-eum". Joel and I met both Rolf and Candy Peterson. They took turns showing us the "Moos-eum". (Rolf was busy in their cabin working on research project tasks and left most of the hospitality work to Candy). They talked to us about the Wolf-Moose project and other things. We then paddled back to Daisy Farm. We spend the night of August 18th at Daisy Farm. I got up early to watch (and photograph) the sunrise. Later in the morning of August 19th, we continued our paddling and portaging journey. (To be continued in a day or so with Part # 3).