- Another big spring Canoe Camping trip has come and gone.
This year thee was 9 of us who went in our group.
 garthwolf ,  indy5brad ,  firestormsix ,  bashley1991 ,  clumzy ,  silvrwolf ,  FrostyShepherd ,  shaylaskye , &  Sheriff. along with Shay's dog Kai and Indy & Bash's dogs Remy & Abby.
We all met ay my place between Thursday night & Friday morning, then left to convoy to the Access point in East Algonquin park on Lake Opeongo.
The trip there was good, nice weather, etc and we stopped at Weber's BBQ restaurant as tradition. We arrived at the lake, unloaded the 5 canoes, loaded the gear in them and began paddling to head down the lake in search of an island Campsite destination. We got roughly a kilometer out, then this wet stuff began to fall from the sky. we got wet. really wet. So after realizing we needed to get to a camp as soon as possible we tied all the canoes together and started up the little 6hp Johnson Outboard i had hanging on the back of the cargo Canoe and we "cheated" the canoeing-by-paddle part and motors the rest of the way to an island 9 kilometers away. :P
After we set up camp, (4 tents, lights, stoves, and got a campfire going) the rain finally began to ease off. The rest of the weekend weather was great, ( except for some thunder showers Monday morning when we left.)
We had lots of fun stuff, campfires, did some canoeing around the local islands, flew off several Sky Lanterns, wiener & marshmallow roasts, played with Leaches, frogs, Crayfish, June-bugs, and all kinds of weird aliens. The star lit skies at night was amazing there, the numbers of them and clarity was far more than could ever be seen in cities areas. Night time sleeping was so quiet, except for the retard Loons that screeched through out the night, and Kai growling at them. Saturday morning the local Park rangers decided to visit random camps on the lake and we were one. everything was good, except we have a number of aluminum canned beer, and they did not like cans. (supposedly on the parks website it states that there is a ban on "Non-burnable / non-reusable containers,) now we knew aluminum cans will burn and turn into an oxide ash in a campfire, but Ranger Rick with no fingers and his posse of-two decided they did not burn and were banned so gave us a fine of 125 bucks, regardless that it did not "clearly" define aluminum cans were banned, only glass bottles. As we all know its pointless to try to argue with a bureaucracy created by-law.
after Breakfast of Eggs Bacon, toast on Saturday i had to motor back to the dock to pick up Sheriff Shep, as he had to work Friday and couldn't make it until Saturday. (roughly 1.5 hours my motoring)
The rest of the trip was great. We had lots of food cooked up and meals, including Western Omelet Sandwiches, Fire-BBQ-ed Burgers, fresh corn & potatoes roasted, Home-made Spaghetti with meatballs, sauce and Garlic bread, Home Made Tacos, roasted hotdogs, traditional Jiffy-Pop camp popcorn, drinks, and more.
Sunday i set up the portable Camp hot shower stall for everyone to wash off the Friday's grit & dirt. :P
Monday morning we ended up getting up a bit earlier to rush packing up camp in fear of an approaching thunderstorm and even skipped the pancake breakfast to get back the the dock before we got hit by rain storms, ( which ended up clearing up and missing us. :P
Overall the trip was good, (except for the Friday & Monday rains and the Saturday Ranger Rick can raid)
as last year, i learned some new ideas and changes to make the next trip better. (as in setting up the rain-awning tarp first which we never did this time for some reason it ended up on the ground in the middle of the camp) and "labeling" every bag , cooler and container with the items list of whats in them. ( i kept loosing track of where i packed items in. :P
and definitely no cans of any kind and bottles. With the fine cost of 125 added on with the total of all other expenses i went over budget by 300 + bucks out of my pocket for the trip. For the ext trip i will make changes to how that's handled for the group costs.

- I will post photos soon here on my FA and Twitter over the next while, and will edit a folder of them to upload to my Photo-bucket or Drop-box for everyone to download if they wish.

- FS6