First camping trip of the year, and we're off to a great start. We packed up the car and hit the road Thursday evening ready for our adventure. On the first night we camped with the Hansens next to the Hudson River in the Adirondacks.
After breakfast and a quick dip in the river we made our way up to Blue Mountain Lake. We got our canoes and lashed them together for better safety, and set our stern toward Osprey Island.
We were the only ones camping on this island, which was beautiful. There was this cute little picnic area around the bend from camp, that had a sandy beach where we played around for a bit, then got warm by the fire.
We paddled down to our next door island and hiked around a bit. There were these huge red mushrooms on a fallen tree. Chet thought about eating one. Don't do it!!!
He was trying to see how deep the water was off this rock, but slipped in. Good thing he saved our camera from drowning.
Back to our home base, we met up with the Scarboroughs.
Time to get down to survival business. The men started the fire and pumped water while the ladies prepared stew and biscuits.
A good meal, an excellent dessert of cherry cobbler, and a good nights sleep on moss covered ground is enough to brighten anyone's day, even if it was a little damp out. We all piled in the motorboat and struck out for West Bay so we could hike up to Castle Rock. We had to open the umbrellas to keep the spray off our faces.
The rocks were really fun to explore on the way up the hike. At the top we felt like we were on top of the world!
Osprey Island served us well. We packed up to head home, but we had to stop at a couple more islands, including Rock Island. This place has a 10' cliff to jump off of into the lake.
On the last leg of our trip we were going with the wind, so we spread our sails...er poncho which pulled us right into the bay.
It was an amazing way to spend Independence day weekend: camping with good friends in the gorgeous country.
