Day 13 Sleeping Giant

 

While today started out as another rainy day, the afternoon gave way to glorious sunshine. Last night we had another humdinger of a storm. Not like the storms in Algonquin and Samuel de Champlain thankfully! I guess the thing is, no matter how glorious the day turns out to be, when you have enough torrential storms at night, the landscape just can’t absorb any more water. We set out early afternoon to finally do some serious hiking and we found the soggy trails, bug ridden! The boardwalks through the wettest sections were actually worse. The old, mossy boards were treacherously slippery. Cautiously stepping and suddenly slipping seemed way more risky than worth it, so after two attempts on two trails we abandoned the effort for a day at the campground. We wandered, we read, I crocheted, we napped. We sat and watched the sun turn the lake into thousands of glittering jewels with the breezes. We lazed the day away! Doesn’t make for an exciting blog, but it does make for quite a lovely day!

 

With a private campsite like this, you never need go anywhere.

Some of the sparkle is visible on the water here. The real thing was something!

Very lush and pretty, but easy to see why trails were buggy and boardwalks were slippery!

Our evening was filled with playing a new game. Azul is fun. David got to play first because he was the last person in Portugal (he always lets me on a plane ahead of him!), but Jenna was the big winner. Thanks Mary-Kate and Greg!

Ellen, the picture is for you! I know you're reading this, and it's a great one for your collection 💗