Tuesday night – off the island

Work today and Wood’s island… What a beautiful spot. It was a little cooler and overcast… I went for a run around the island again. We had an amazing breakfast of all the uneaten food… Macaroni and cheese for breakfast is pretty special. The other guys made spam and eggs… No thanks. We were pretty careful about eating our own food and not sharing for Covid reasons

Or one bit of mischief this morning was we made a slingshot to see how far we could chuck rocks… And eventually flaming potatoes

Then it was time to pack up… We’ve gotten a ride out with some of our gear on Chuck’s boat. This time we were on our own. We had a little more stuff than we had room to put so it was quite an interesting packing problem to get it all on two kayaks and two canoes

We were all laid down pretty heavily… Especially the canoes. It’s normally an hour and a half crossing took us three for the 3 1/2 miles. We had a stiff wind with 1 to 2 foot swells… And occasional 4 foot… We all stayed out of the water though… Which isn’t always the case on these trips.

We were very happy when we pulled into heros welcome.

John and aaron were pretty beat from all the weight they were carrying. We divided up the gear and split up. It had been a very good trip

I was in North hero and realized that I was only a few miles from Camp Abnaki… the camp we’re all three boys went. We have such great memories from there. We still provide a scholarship at that camp in Sam’s honor .

I drove into the camp… And there was absolutely no one there. This would be their busiest season… It was definitely pretty eerie. I walked around and remembered some of our parent weekends there… Put a few Sam stones around and headed out. It was a really nice pilgrimage