Canoe Camp, Eastern Ontario

Oh Joe! Really? Oh Joe! What is it? Where's my bowl? That's crazy Brian. These are all a little bad. Not big but. I can't see anything dude. Not with these glasses on. Well there's the one lake. We portaged up all this mess. Can't really get it as the height in the camera but I'm panting. I'm huffing and puffing. And then all this this wasn't a long portage. It was dangerous. We're stepping on these crazy boulders They're everywhere. You can see the canoe up straight ahead. That's into Puzzle Lake now It's our second portage coming up and it looks like it's gonna be a hell of a lot easier than the first one Thank God. How deep is the water next to you? Put your paddle into it That's crazy walking on water. All right, we We paddled through this portage and walked over to Bear Lake and found that there was almost no spot to put in. We could probably do it tomorrow but the energy level that we have right now is pretty low just because we've been paddling and driving all day. So we came back to Loyce Lake, very clear water and a pre-made campsite actually. So we're going to spend the night here, probably the whole weekend here but we always had the option of going back. It's just after 10. We've got three nice size, well one nice size smallmouth bass and two other rock and a smallmouth that we're going to eat. So we're gonna fry them up on the fire. That's the big smallie we got. Here's the second day, which is the first morning. I didn't put my tarp up on my hammock last night because there was no chance of rain. It was pretty cool. It's the first time I've been able to do that. So I've got my hammock set up and my I got my tent with the six hits max. Shot of the campsite. We're lucky enough to have a little table there. It's 6:30 in the morning and it's a beautiful morning. Gonna do some fishing I think. You got him? Bring him on over. What's that, number five? Four bass, one perch. This is a smaller one. Smaller to average of the size we keep catching. And this is only on the way to the lake that we thought was gonna be the fishing hole. So, nice large mouth there. let that guy go because we got a stringer full this is great fishing trainer so i'm walking in the in the woods here by your camp and found a birch tree now i'm sure everybody knows about birch and their paper bark it's very flammable so that's cool you can use that for fire but then there's a piece of chaga right here and chaga is also known as tinder fungus so to harvest it i try and do it with my left hand because i got the camera in my right you just pop your knife in there give her a little pry and I guess you get birch bark with it so the part of the chaga you use for fire and for tea is the inside here it's very corky but you got to dry it out first I've never found chaga that's dried already so it looks like a burnt pile of mess on the outside it's like a golden corky texture on the inside all right this is the biggest one yet it's a small and he broke my lure so he's going back I took it out first well this is the third day and the second morning the weather is a little bit different today first two days were really sunny and hot today's kind of breezy and overcast I still haven't put the tarp over top of my hammock which is back in there it's been nice but I think today I will have to do that obviously don't want all my stuff getting soaked okay we got this site and it was already used already built up this you can't camp for free here but people obviously have come here over the years to camp this fire pit was here when we got here obviously this thing is huge but a good thing about it is whoever made it or improved on it with this tall rock here so you can use this part here like a like a stove or oven it's actually pretty functional for the size of it oh we decided to pack up camp and get ready to go because there's a pretty bad storm rolling in i just wanted to show my hammock with the snake skin on so that's the snake skin there and all you do is you take this rolled up snake skin push it along like that i've got to use two hands to get the rest in but that's the gist of it and it packs pretty good into the bag it came in i'll use this this loop knot that kgd he taught me, it's a tension knot, works really good.