July 16 Paradise

I actually slept a little late for me today, woke up about 6. Maggie and I went on our usual morning walk. It’s always very quiet and peaceful early. When we got back I fed her and turned on the news. We only get a couple of stations and they come out of Toronto. Evidently Canada hasn’t changed to digital yet so all the stations are on air.  I haven’t got used to the temperature being in Celsius and the rainfall in millimeters.  Maggie just can’t get used to all the little ground squirrels around here. She sure would like to catch one. When in the trailer she is looking out the window whining and when we’re outside she is always on full alert watching and trying to get down to chase them. Our neighbors left some food on their table inside the screened tent. The squirrels had a party in there. A lady told me they are chipmunks and there are a lot of them here.. We put the kayak in the river and took off this morning. We were gone about 3 hours which is about my limit. It was a quiet float down to Lake Superior. We saw birds,ducks,geese and one bald eagle.   The wind wasn’t blowing so we got on the lake for a little while. When you got out of the river channel, there was a sand bar and the water was shallow. It probably was a 100 yards from the shoreline.  The day was overcast and not much sun but it was a nice trip. After we got back to the trailer and had lunch Susan wanted to go shopping in Paradise.  There grocery store wasn’t much but we got a couple of things we needed.  We went to a combo gas station, store and atv rental place.  After talking to the lady,{  she convinced Susan that the bears wouldn’t eat her and we wouldn’t get lost} we reserved a side by side ATV for Wednesday. There are miles of trails up here which you can ride. It should be a lot of fun. If you don’t hear from us again then maybe the lady was wrong.  Not many shops in Paradise but we did go in a chainsaw artist shop and found a carved bear whichwas just the right size for us to carry on our travels. He was selling his carvings just about as fast as he made them.  His mother-in-law (who was born and raised in Paradise} entertained us as he carved our name and stained it. Aftet that we headed back to camp and relaxed the rest of the evening.

Lake Superior

Floating with the geese

our new door greeter

 

river was slick as glass