We all began our adventure in our respective home towns at met up at the airport in Duluth, Minnesota. We waited for our van to take us to the Boundary Waters and had a good laugh when it arrived. We walked out of the airport to find a limousine-style party bus, complete with neon lights. Our sweet ride drove us about 2.5 hours to the Boundary Waters, where we met two boats ready to take us into Canada and on to our camp at Zups. After an hour and a half boat ride including a stop at the customs dock and two portages over land, we arrived at Zups.
The camp was, um, rustic, but nice. The 17 of us were divided between 3 cabins. Each cabin had a basic kitchen and bunkbeds and luxuries like lights and running water :) Ours also had a screened porch where we hosted game nights. We really enjoyed staying at Zups. It's owned by a husband a wife, Mark and Kathy, and has been in Mark's family since 1936. It felt like staying at a bed and breakfast. The lodge had fresh baked goodies and comfy sofas for relaxing. Our first night, we had dinner in the dining room. Each day, we had breakfast at the lodge, lunch in our cabins, and took turns cooking dinner for the group.
We spent our days enjoying the scenery and fishing. On Thursday, we took a group trip to a small island, where the Zups staff prepared a fish fry for us. From there, we went to see some Indian pictographs and pick up the M family, who had been camping for a couple of days.
On Friday, some of us went out to Spring Lake. Zups has exclusive rights to the lake, and we had it to ourselves. It was truly beautiful and worth the rocky half mile portage, which was uphill both ways....really.
There are too many pictures to post, but here are a few. Click here to see more.
The camp was, um, rustic, but nice. The 17 of us were divided between 3 cabins. Each cabin had a basic kitchen and bunkbeds and luxuries like lights and running water :) Ours also had a screened porch where we hosted game nights. We really enjoyed staying at Zups. It's owned by a husband a wife, Mark and Kathy, and has been in Mark's family since 1936. It felt like staying at a bed and breakfast. The lodge had fresh baked goodies and comfy sofas for relaxing. Our first night, we had dinner in the dining room. Each day, we had breakfast at the lodge, lunch in our cabins, and took turns cooking dinner for the group.
We spent our days enjoying the scenery and fishing. On Thursday, we took a group trip to a small island, where the Zups staff prepared a fish fry for us. From there, we went to see some Indian pictographs and pick up the M family, who had been camping for a couple of days.
On Friday, some of us went out to Spring Lake. Zups has exclusive rights to the lake, and we had it to ourselves. It was truly beautiful and worth the rocky half mile portage, which was uphill both ways....really.
There are too many pictures to post, but here are a few. Click here to see more.
Some Canadian beauty that speaks for itself.
These are pictographs painted on rocks by natives over 500 years ago. See the figure in the middle holding a spear?
Marlee rockclimbing
My best catch, a Northern Pike
Daddy and MJ at the fish fry
Our canoes
We had an absolutely wonderful trip, but we're glad to be home...with lots of memories of course.
I'll have to tell you about the trip home, but I'm too tired right now!
4 comments:
Beautiful pictures! Looks like a great trip! Welcome home.
WOW- it looks beautiful there! I'm jealous...I have to wait for October for our vacation. ;(
~Sissy Teeny
wow! Looks like a blast! Dan & I would love to take a trip like that! Love Marlees little hat too! Glad that you are home safe!
That looks like a wonderful trip! Marlee's a great little rock climber :)
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