BAYFIELD INLET. WINTER 2018. TRIP ONE. DAY TWO PART TWO TWO

January 28, 2018

Finishing up our day two.

Enchiladas before.

Por favor.

This "TEAMSTER" apparently was a 

slam dunk home run new car smell hole in one.

Enchiladas after.

Garcias.

BAYFIELD INLET. WINTER 2018. TRIP ONE. PART TWO

January 28, 2018

We'll spend our first day enjoying the sun and the winter experience of being on the island.

Forever thankful that we get along, including the no-contact Scrabble game, as well as a we do for there is no (warm) room, other than the one you see here, to go to run and hide.

We've come for a winter adventure so it's nice to see a freeze after yesterday's brief warm snap.

One step closer to my goal of one day, after driving to the island, skate here.

Do a Hans Brinker.

The view from our "wood stove-less" new cottage.

Next season.

How do you spell O.A.T.M.E.A.L.

Our winter cache of grub. A little extra in case we decided to stay an extra month or three.We lay up our supplies based on caloric value. No single or double digit values even come close to making the grocery list. Such a comforting false sense of over eating.

It being tolerable temp wise inside, cooking up a little lunch.

Soups, and biscuits, up!

BAYFIELD INLET. WINTER 2018. TRIP ONE. PART ONE.

January 27, 2018

With all but for a slight bump up in today's temperature, all systems a go for a winter cabin visit.

Blastoff.

Nice to have Hyla join us.

We've been more than appreciative of a cold winter that has at the start brought 12-18" of ice underfoot.

We are appreciative of a brief warm snap that will afford us a pleasant hike in.

Today's warmer temps has brought some surface water. Always with extreme caution and never taking anything for granted, we tread lightly.

Lunch break.

As we approached the mouth of Alexander Passage, and our island, the ice is showing signs of recent fracturing and refreezing. Not the most reassuring and reflective of the extent of permanent ice cover is not too much further out in the bay.

Wind and water level changes keep things a mix.

Not in the mood of jumping from floe to floe.

(The Inuit have one word for falling in the water but thirteen different laughs.)

A forecast of colder temperatures will offer some reassurance of a safe(r) hike home.

After a couple of hours,

glad to be back on Terra Firma, 

being Canadian Shield

Happy to initially see that the cabin and all seem intact.

Happier that we don't have to get the snowblowers going.

(That being us and that being a whole new story)

Even now with canoes within reach, looking forward to the temperatures plummeting tonight!

What a way to end our day.

The scrabble game spelled out for triple points:

Much success.

Wood stove cranked.

We're powered up enough to turn all the lights down.

Our great supper is only magnified after a day like this.

Comforters and books await.