2011: Post 31 – Another night in Pinchgut

A few weeks ago I did an overnight camping trip at Pinchgut (see 2011: Post 25) with Hazen, Charlie, Julie and Clyde.  This past weekend Tony and Dennis joined me for another night at Pinchgut.  We were supposed to have a couple others guys on this trip, but they had to cancel…

The route this weekend was the same as the one before.  I have not seen a lot of wildlife during the trips I have made to this location, but this particular trip we seen two moose, an otter, a seal, an eagle, a squirrel, and what was thought to be a porpoise…

Some pictures to share…

On the way to our campsite

As soon as we got to the campsite we immediately set about putting up the tents and hanging out the laundry...

With camp in order it was time to tend to supper. We found a piece of an old brick chimney, filled it with BBQ charcoal and set about cooking up some surf and turf (mussels and steak)

Dennis slicing up onions... all smiles, no crying...

Good looking grill there guys...

 If the flies get a bit too much just add some bows to the fire to smoke them away...

Sometimes you can drive away the larger pests from the fire as well....
just kidding Dennis, it was really great to have you with us...

After supper was taken care of we lit up our beach-side campfire..  I took a bunch of pictures of our fire, but the flames in these two are interesting.... 

It rained pretty hard during the night but we had turned into our tents before it started and with the exception of some leaking tents during the night we all managed to make it through the night.  We awoke to a damp, but windless morning, had breakfast, loaded up the kayaks and got back on the water.

We crossed over to John's Pond in very calm conditions and then headed up the shore....

Dennis forgot his camera and so used mine to take a few pics,
this is one of them

We had lunch at Half Island and then made our way to Rocky River....

Dennis up the river...

Tony up the river...

We anticipated the falls would be flowing nicely with the amount of rain that fell the night before.  We were not disappointed...

Dennis at Rocky River Falls

Tony sitting in the froth below the falls

This is the third time I have done this camping trip, and the trip is short enough that we have done it as a day paddle several times as well.  There is always something new to experience, or new people to share the experience of this trip with. 

Thanks Tony and Dennis for another great overnight camping trip.