WI Fishing Trip

It's been a while since I've updated the blog...we've been really busy. Now that the school year is over and some of our trips are done, I can finally upload some photos and write some posts.

A week or so ago, I and another man in our church took some teens out to a lake house in Wisconsin for the fishing opener in that state. We didn't have the clear skies and sun we hoped for, but the weather was still ok for fishing. It was overcast and drizzly for most of the time, but the fish were still hitting. Unfortunately we didn't get huge fish, but we did get enough bites to keep things interesting.

On the way out to the lake, we stopped at the border between WI and MN and checked out some sweet rock formations along the St. Croix river. It was some real good times.

When we got to the lake we really enjoyed ourselves...in addition to the fish, there was a pair of loons on the lake, a couple of bald eagles and even a black bear. The loons were real vocal and the one night, when I stayed up late out on the dock, I got to hear them conversing for 3 solid minutes...it was incredible.

Another funny experience with nature happened to me as I paddled around in the kayak: I saw some turtles swimming together in the water in a clump. When I went to investigate, I found there were two grown painted turtles FIGHTING with three little ones climbing on them!! I've never seen anything like that. You'll see from a couple of the pictures below that the one was biting the other in the throat! I broke them up and stuck them in the back compartment in my kayak...put them in detention on their backs so they couldn't fight. =P I think I broke up a domestic disturbance! lol

Anyway, enjoy the photos...we really enjoyed experiencing the beautiful creation of God for a couple of days.