I.R. afterall!
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:55 pm
Yeh! I'm making a trip this summer after all 
It's been 4 years with life getting in the way of getting back, but the waters have parted. It will be my daughter and I, canoeing from McCargoe to Rock Harbor in 6 days. Nothing like a tough trip 
Leave July 27 and return Aug 2--luckily the Voyageur had room in our tight scheduling window. Laura is working summer camps in July and will start her career as a H.S. math teacher later in Aug.
She wants to paddle around Blake Pt and avoid the Duncan/Tobin portage--hmmm, we'll have to see. She remembers the portage from our 2001 trip when she was 13. Also got a better taste of the big lake in 2005 when we paddled around the outer islands of R.H. in some nice swells--which she loved! She doesn't scare easy (which is a little scary sometimes
) I wouldn't mind being able to say I've canoed around Blake Pt, but it will have to be perfect conditions--otherwise the up and over route 
As a cost saving measure we're borrowing an Old Town Camper instead of renting a kevlar canoe. So it's heavy, slow, and the plastic oilcans, but it's cheap, stable, and it will get to Tobin Harbor one way or the other--and it's stil alot lighter than what I grew up portaging.
Not sure if we're going to do the fishing thing or not. Want to go light, but we'll have plenty of time to fish if we want, but we'll need licenses for several days. And I'm not much of a fisherman. But just in case, can you still get a Michigan license at the marina in G.P.? If so, how late are they open in the evening?
Time to get planning.....
It's been 4 years with life getting in the way of getting back, but the waters have parted. It will be my daughter and I, canoeing from McCargoe to Rock Harbor in 6 days. Nothing like a tough trip Leave July 27 and return Aug 2--luckily the Voyageur had room in our tight scheduling window. Laura is working summer camps in July and will start her career as a H.S. math teacher later in Aug.She wants to paddle around Blake Pt and avoid the Duncan/Tobin portage--hmmm, we'll have to see. She remembers the portage from our 2001 trip when she was 13. Also got a better taste of the big lake in 2005 when we paddled around the outer islands of R.H. in some nice swells--which she loved! She doesn't scare easy (which is a little scary sometimes
) I wouldn't mind being able to say I've canoed around Blake Pt, but it will have to be perfect conditions--otherwise the up and over route As a cost saving measure we're borrowing an Old Town Camper instead of renting a kevlar canoe. So it's heavy, slow, and the plastic oilcans, but it's cheap, stable, and it will get to Tobin Harbor one way or the other--and it's stil alot lighter than what I grew up portaging.
Not sure if we're going to do the fishing thing or not. Want to go light, but we'll have plenty of time to fish if we want, but we'll need licenses for several days. And I'm not much of a fisherman. But just in case, can you still get a Michigan license at the marina in G.P.? If so, how late are they open in the evening?
Time to get planning.....
