Hi Rob,
Thanks for the update. The information I'm getting here is worth it's weight in beer!! Yea, even though it's a bit more expensive, my buddy has lots of fishing gear so we'll just be let off the ferry at Chippewa Harbor. The inland lakes next trip, we hope!!

Hello again, Thanks for all the info. My buddy is the avid fisherman of the group and as such he has a lot more gear than me, although I'll help tote it, of course!! That's why we decided against any long portages and also why we'll take a few days to paddle through an area we could probably ...

OK, I've heard and read all the warnings about canoeing around the open water of the lake, and my trip this summer won't have a big stretch of unprotected paddling because of it, but it got me wondering... The Natives obviously got to the island by canoe and small boat going across the same, at ...

Name:Mark & Randy (The Dixie Tipsters) Email: (at) Hometown: Austell, Georgia Arrival Date: 29 August Departure Date: 8 September Coming From/Via: Grand Portage, Mn on the Voyageur II Itinerary: canoe and portage (ouch!!) from Belle Isle to Rock Harbor in four days, while fishing our beehineys off ...

Hello everyone, it looks like I'm the newbie on this site!! I'm planning a canoe trip with a friend that moved up to Duluth, Mn a few years back. I'm glad he did or I'd probably never have gotten to the Boundary Waters, or this gem of an island either. Since I'm coming all the way from Georgia, we ...