Turtle Flambeau Flowage

Yesterday I was too tired to take the photos off our cameras, so here are some pictures of Rib Mountain and Little Arbor Vitae Lake.

Today we went on a hike on the Awassa Trail in St. Germain and saw a deer.

Travalon lost his sunglasses somewhere, so he looked on the trail but didn't find them. I said, "Come on, would you really have dropped them on the trail?" but they weren't in the car and they weren't at the place where we got coffee, so I looked on the trail... and there they were! So not only did he drop them on the trail, but he didn't even see them when he looked there! After that we drove to Mercer and shopped a little, then we went to the Turtle Flambeau Flowage to look for loons. There are a lot of islands in the flowage.

We hiked on a trail out to Turtle Point and saw a mother bird with two babies, but we can't tell if they are loons or cormorants.

We also saw this tree that someone had clearly bent while it was growing.

And a cute bug with chartreuse eyes that looked like they would glow under black lights landed on me and stayed there for a long time.

We stopped by Trude Lake, drove around Wilson Lake, checked out One Man Lake, and drove a long, unpaved road to Deer Lake, but I will post photos of them later since the internet service is slow here. Also, I realize that they kind of look all the same in photos. Then we drove on Joe's Shack Road to the Little Turtle Flowage, where we saw lots of purple flowers and a pair of trumpeter swans with four half-grown cygnets. Travalon took some footage of them that I will edit and post later.

We ended up walking well over eight miles today! Then we returned to the hotel and I prayed the Rosary over Zoom with the Rosary Ladies while Travalon went to enjoy the hot tub by the pool. Unfortunately they were cleaning it tonight, but fortunately the bathtub in our room has jets so he had his own personal hot tub. Then we went to Little Saint Germain Lake to try to see loons, since it was near sunset by then, but there were so many boaters coming and going that we just gave up. We did hear a loon on the Turtle Flambeau Flowage, so we know they are around. Maybe we'll have better luck tomorrow.

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