banana pancakes from dehydrated bananas never tasted so good...
after breakfast and coffee we had gone out to the entrance of ROBERTSON BAY across from the cabin to harvest firewood and drill a few ice holes. while we were jigging our lines we heard the sound of snowmobiles from back by the cabin trail. as i walked over to get a view of the trail around the peninsula, i watched seven snowmobiles race out of the woods onto the lake and pull up in front of the cabin! ELI and i raced across the lake and met two of sleds coming our way. it was GL and TYLER, and they had brought out half of the town of MISSINIPE with them!
we opened up our supplies and shared our cheese and homemade jerky with them and they passed around smoked oysters and beers. they all said we were crazy for walking out to the cabin when it took them a half a day to make the ride out on snowmobiles. they were all very impressed by the camp and said that it was the best looking cabin around, and that is saying something since the cabin is nearly 40 years old...
they helped us haul the spindles that we had felled from across the bay back to the cabin where we could cut them down and split them. we turned a half day's worth of work into minutes...
as the group fired up their sleds to head back to MISSINIPE they unloaded a box of groceries on us! ham, bacon, eggs, onions, potatoes...and coffee! in all of our meticulous food planning we had seriously misjudged our coffee consumption...
once again, as they sleds began to pull away, TYLER pulled out a bag of marinating pork tenderloin and garlic sausages. he tossed them over to me with a wink that said enjoy and good luck. i think the adventure and what ELI and i were doing had struck a chord with TYLER...
the sleds disappeared into the woods and once again, silence encased our camp. our camp that was now transformed by a group of people that we had just met but felt completely bonded to.
- fishing report: ELI caught one WHITEFISH and one TROUT in the ROBERTSON BAY CHANNEL