Gorgeous pictures. Wild flowers? Gee, I'd love to have those in my yard!

Love those pictures. Did you get eaten by mosquitoes?

beautiful!
glad you had such a good time

I'm jealous - it's been many, many years since I was last there. The memories of the rain, cold and bears have faded. That distant memory combined with your great photos make me think I should go again!

FANTASTIC PICTURES

Great photos. Looked like a wonderful time.

What great pictures! And what tremendous memories you are making for those boys!

Wow~~awesome scenery!

Loved your pictures, especially that one with the calm glassy water with the perfect reflection.

My guess is, you will be going again!

WOW what beautiful pictures. Lucky you to have taken such a wonderful trip!

Those pics are glorious, what a tranquil place. I love to see what it is like in other country's natural bushland. I live in Australia and the predominant tree is the Eucalypt.

What are the trees in those pictures ? They look like conifers to me.

Loved your pictures. It sure looks like you had a wonderful time!

Thanks all.

Linda:The mosquitoes were only bad in the evenings and the further you went into the woods the worse they got.

Popi: Yes, it's predominantly conifers in northern Minnesota. The most common were White Pine, Jack Pine, Balsam Fir, Black Spruce, and my personal favorite, Larch or Tamarack (Larix decidua). The Larch is unique in that it's a deciduous conifer. The needles turn a beautiful golden yellow in the Fall. It tolerates wet feet and grows in the marshes and on the edges of the swamps. There were a few deciduous trees, mostly Paper Birch and Poplar. I also saw at least six different varieties of ferns.

(Always the botanist)

Ron

Ron, thank you for sharing that wonderful trip with us. Great pictures!

Now you have to answer the important question: Did Bigbaby do any remodeling while you were gone? :-)

Lol...Alisande...I had to laugh...because that is what I always did when Denny went on his man trips...He never knew what he'd come home to...

I would love to take this trip...actually I even love to take a day trip somewhere. we haven't been anywhere since 04...

Thanks so much for sharing.

patti

Thanks for sharing Ron! Beautiful scenery! I think I might enjoy going on a adventure like that... although I'd feel safer in a more substantial boat. A pontoon sounds good. lol

Welcome to the KT Popi!

Thanks for sharing your observant 'eye' (and camera skills) with us. I see you guys took a lot of clothesline with you. LOL Did you fish? What did you eat?

STUNNING. I have a standing invitation to visit some friends at their lake cabin in MN in the summer. I'll take them up on it next year. Wonderful pics, thanks so much for sharing.

I really enjoyed looking at your pictures. Although I live in Minnesota I haven't been to the BWCA in many, many years. Still looks exactly like I remembered it!

Alisande, no Bigbaby didn't start any remodeling projects but, my honeydo list has grown substantially!!

Chisue, we all fished; some people even caught some. I'm not a fisherman. Some of the guys caught enough bass for us all to have a meal one evening.

Ron

All your pictures are great!
My favorite is the island in the fog.
Glad you are sharing your adventure with us. Thanks.

Beautiful pictures!

I have spent several vacations on the Winipeg flowage out of Minaki, Ontario. My parents-in-law had a cabin on an island 5 miles from town. The only way in was by boat or swim. The terrain is similar - no sandy beaches. Just a rocky shoreline to bang the bow of the canoe. Landing can be tricky in wind and waves. That country is a stunning place to visit. Once you are out on the water, it hits you. This place could be dangerous. There are lots of ways to mess up, so one takes care not to do those things and then along comes a situation you did not think about. It keeps you alert.

Mosquitos can be bad or not so bad, but are ever present. During the day, if there is a breeze that is faster than the flying speed (5 mph) of the buggers, they tend to stay parked on the underside of leaves. When the wind calms at nightfall and the relative humidity rises, they come out. To survive and sleep, you must have good mosquito netting on your tent and you should have a repair kit. However, we noted an interesting phenomonem. If you get in a canoe or boat and move away from shore, you will find a distance beyond which they will not venture. Its in the neighborhood of 30 ft.

Those waters are populated with muskies and pike. When these fish are about, you do not sit on a dock and dangle your toes in the water. These fish have a teeth and a ferocious strike. A story circulated one year about a boy who dangled his toes, a muskie struck and stripped most of the flesh off his great toe - unpleasant! The guys made sure they did not go skinny dipping for obvious reasons. They wore suits and had no problems.

And now it is story time. There were two young fellows who worked for the "Lands and Forest" during the summer. They had the job of moose survey and tagging. How do you place an ear tag in a wild moose?? It was their practice to go out in a small helicopter to spot the moose. When they found a moose swimming in water, they could swoop down, look for the ear tag and if none were present, tag the moose without much fuss. The moose was terrified however. The guy doing the tagging would climb out on the runners - regular modern cow - no - mooseboys.

On this fateful day, they are 30 miles away from the station when they spy a moose in water. The water is almost over the shoulders. Now, there is one predictable thing about moose and that is they are unpredictable. This happless pair swoops down over the moose with a man riding the runner. The moose did not move. Just as soon as the tagger reached out to tag, the moose stood up! It was laying in a couple ft of water. The moose in getting up tips the helicopter over and it wrecks. The rotor hit the water. One person got a broken bone and the other one was knocked around a bit. There they were sitting in water with wrecked machine, one person significantly injured, and the radio shot. The storyteller stopped and never revealed how they got out. Needless to say, the accident was written up and the provedures revised.

That could be Newfoundland!! We have lots of lakes and ponds around here, all the wildflowers you showed grow wild here too. I think the duck is a merganser. Lovely photos.

Beautiful photos, Ron! We are so lucky to have the BWCA here in Minnesota!