Day 2, part one

Spent Thursday bumming around town getting some last minute items, fishing license, etc. Not much else to do in that town. We mostly drove around, doing a little shopping for last minute items, etc. The plane came at 4:30pm to pick us up. We can see him landing and then taxiing to the dock. The plane pulls up to the dock and some kid jumps out and ties it off, looks to be about 16....I'm looking for his dad, or the real pilot, waiting for him to step out too...then realize this kid IS our pilot! LOL




We ended up with an extra passenger when Johnny's brother-in-law, Pat, showed up at the airport with an expired passport (you now need a passport when flying to/from Canada). He ended up changing his flight to Int Falls and then taking a taxi over the border and just made it in time for our plane.




The pilot was only planning on two passengers (Louis and I), so he only had two extra seats in the plane...says they always travel as light as possible. I volunteered to use my duffle bag as a chair. The pilot had a heck of a time getting the plane airborn with the extra weight. He was actually trying to bounce off waves in hopes of catching some extra air to get airborn...but after a very long time (I'm talking MINUTES of taxing on the water at high speed), it finally broke free of the water and lifted...which was good because we were entering the boat traffic lanes For a while there, I thought we'd have to taxi all the way to our destination.






You really realize how desolate it is when you fly for two hours and pretty much see nothing as far as real civilization goes...a couple logging camps, a few waaaaaay out there homes....it's beautiful.



We finally arrived at camp around 7:00pm, thankful for having made it this far with any major incidents LOL