Today we set out for Converse Bay. But it was no ordinary
day. Today there
strong winds, which created waves about a foot and a half high.
We had a little bit of
trouble setting out today because of the wind and waves. It took
about an half hour just to
get all the boats into the water. It was really cool trying to
get out of Button Bay because
we were heading into the waves. Susan and I were having lots
of fun trying to catch some
air, and we did too. We got about half the canoe out of the water
when three big rolling
waves came at us. When we finally got out of Button Bay we headed
North again to
Converse bay. The cool part is that the wind was at our backs,
but about half and hour
after we got out of Button Bay it started to Thunder Storm. This
was kind of scary
because this is one of the first times I have been on the water in
the worst possible
conditions, and in a little canoe to top things off. After a
while, we came up to Basin
Harbor where we tried to get out of the storm.
We landed on a private yacht club type place. And Susan, being
it is her birthday today,
decided to get into her "Birthday Suit" and dry off her clothing, as
a guy in a dump truck
watched her though binoculars. About 5 minutes after we got out
of the water the storm
went away and the sun came out, the wind stop blowing, and the
lake turned calm and
beautiful. So we set out again to Converse Bay. When we
got there we found out that it
was infested with mosquitoes, which made this place kind of suck.
I tried to cover as
much skin as possible. We then hiked about 2 and a half miles
to the spot were they
found the Charlotte Whale. When we got back to our camp site,
Susan's mom was there and Mr. Peterson's wife also showed up for our food
drop. Other people's parents showed up to and they all brought lots
of food. We all ate so well that day, we had pizza, pie's, cheese
cake, and chocolate covered strawberries. After dinner was pretty
much the end of out day, most people went into there tents to get
away from the mosquito's.