BW Journal Day 2 Sun 7/05

This was a day of recovery and rest and Lord knows we needed it. Just standing up brought a chorus creaks and moans from our entire bodies. As trying as it was, Scott's strategy of aggressively pursuing a prime site appears to have paid off. We saw several people paddle onto our lake and over to our site; hoping to occupy it.
We soon learned to watch the sky for incoming rain. The promontory in front of our tent gave us a good view of the western sky.

While sitting around recovering our bodies, we really came to appreciate our head nets. In fact, I am wearing one now as I write this.

Next we wanted to make an effort to find the latrine at this camp site. It's at the end of a little path that leads into the woods. Upon exploring that path we found this big snake consuming his frog dinner, whole!

After our exciting snake discovery we wanted a swim. We have a nicely slipping rock shelf in front of our site thay slopes all the way into the water. It has algae growing on it which makes it as slick and dangerous as ice. So Scott improvised this rope railing with knots every two feet.

We had chicken and rice out of a pouch for dinner and the retreated to our tent before the skies opened up. What do you do in a tent in the middle of a rain storm? You hang up a head lamp in the center of the tent and play gin rummy.