Mornings at camp are boring sometimes.  A lot of times people just sit around like losers until someone suggests something to do.

(I sort of think The Kid is picking his nose in this picture but I can’t be sure.)

Pops usually digs around in the cook kit for awhile to find something that he knows he brought but can’t remember where it got put.

He usually finds it.

About 11:00 after breakfast is cleaned up and everyone’s tired of sitting around, we go on a day trip!  Our first (and pretty much only) day trip was to the Hoser Islands, which we named after Sister.  Then Pops started calling them the Sister Islands and that kind of stuck better than the Hoser Islands.  The Kid, Joey and I had made an expedition to them earlier that morning and had found….WILD BLUEBERRIES!

Everyone knows that’s the primary reason I go to the Boundary Waters.  I love wild blueberries.

So without much fanfare, we loaded everyone up into three canoes and paddled out to the Sister Islands, where the four of us girls picked blueberries until there were none left at all.

Wild blueberries are easy to miss, they grow low to the ground in sunny places, usually on a good, exposed rock face.  They’re tiny blue jewels and they taste like nectar.

LOOK AT THEM!  Oh I just want to eat them all up.

Once we finished picking all the blueberries on the island, we realized we needed to move on to exploit the natural resources of another.

The Kid is always disappointing I guess.

We didn’t find any more blueberries on the other Sister Islands, so we headed back to camp around 3:00 and I learned how to chop wood with a hatchet.

I wouldn’t say I’m very good at it.