Our new remote state forest camp site near Rice Lake. We did pretty good for setting this up mostly in the dark. Unfortunately, it rained all night long and a lot Tuesday. It was pretty muddy in that spot. We probably could have set the tents up back farther on flowers, but I didn't want to crush the field of flowers.
It was a nice location to camp, nicer when it does rain! It was buggy with lots of mosquitoes after the rain. Made it kind of not so fun even sitting in the screened in tent because we were always killing more and more mosquitoes. They'd swarm you and would follow us back into the porch.
You would think they could have said it nicer!
We did look on the website and sure enough, campsite closed! You would think they'd put up a bigger sign in the camp area! Tuesday, we did happen upon this other camping area I wanted to check out. It's always a good idea to see what else there is for camping! It was a beautiful site and only a few along the lake. Campsites were really far apart and nothing across from them. Very private!
Tuesday night I tried to see if we could book a camping spot and it was all full. There were some first come, first serve. Wednesday morning we drove over and talked to the Camp guy and he said #7 was open. I'm like we'll take it! It was the one we wanted and could not be reserved on line!! So most of Wednesday we spent packing up and moving for the 3rd time!
We just hung out the rest of the day at Crescent Lake, our camp spot. We kayaked, I floated in the tube and Steve fished. The best part, hardly any mosquitoes and a beautiful view of the lake.
This was our first camp site on Lake Clara. We always camp here. It was sad to have to leave but I think the new location was an upgrade. The bummer part, was we had to drive an extra 20 minutes to get to this location. It was a long drive back to town on hwy 61. The other camp spot was a quick 20 minutes and closer to Lutsen /Grand Marais. With the move to Crescent lake, we were next to BWCA, way up there in the woods! Nothing much for cell service either!
I'm hoping next summer we can camp here again if Covid is done or they decide to open this site up.
Since we didn't want to go out to eat in town, due to Covid. We made some really good camp or picnic meals. First night was Beef Tenderloin at Lake Clara camp site.
We had our friendly chipmunks visit, looking for food!
We did a lot of biking, this is the driving trail to our Rice Lake camp spot! We really are alone in the wood here!
We did a lot of biking on old logging roads. Some are pretty rough and hardly traveled. I'm always worried we are going to bike into a bear some where in the woods.
I think we make too much noise for that to happen but who knows??
Made some pesto, ranch ham and salami sandwiches on a picnic next to an area we kayaked.
I can't call this a lake. It was more like a bog, stream, Lilly pad area with lots of beaver dams, that went on forever! We never did make it to the end. Steve was too busy fishing and catching lots of small mouth bass and a northern.
I was just along for the ride. My fishing pole of course didn't have a lure on it, so I couldn't fish!
I wanted to go back here to fish but we never made it back.
Thankfully it was an over cast day and the fish were biting.
Beautiful area, the kind were you could see a moose!
Our new Crescent lake camp site.
Here was that note on the outhouse building far from where we were camping on Lake Clara. We also never use this, as I bring a port a potty for our campsite.
Breakfast with wild blue berries we picked the day before. We also purchased maple syrup from the place in the woods that taps maple trees on their property and makes the syrup right there.
They are small berries but very tasty! Made excellent pancakes!
This is the first time we've been able to pick blue berries and we did it three times! Usually we are only picking wild raspberries, which we did too!
Lake Superior, another beach view.
Wearing our masks in Grand Marais and around town! MN State mandate to wear a mask went into effect Saturday! Everyone up north was already wearing them (or mostly I should say!) We did come across a few people not doing this before!
I was able to stack 10 rocks, before some fell off.
We drove down this road for 40 minutes before realizing we'd have to turn around and go back. It was fun but kind of scary drive. If. we got stuck, no one would find us or know where we were!
He likes to do stuff like this all the time up there. We go down lot of logging roads. Most of the time, they get so bad, we have to turn around. It would be fun to have a 4 wheeler, then we could go through anything except trees that fell down over the road!
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