This year's Island was very fun, but very unusual. Here's a list of the bizarre things that took place over the course of the week:
1) One of the two baby eagles that has always lived in a huge nest above the Green Cabin must have overeaten or something, because it was on the ground, walking around! You could literally get a foot away from it. Sadly, while playing a game of capture the flag, I found it lying dead on the shore, with its neck twisted against a boulder. My Uncle Pete and Uncle Tom put it in a bag and gave it to the DNR, who said the eagle was about three years old.
2) We never saw it, but my Uncle Tom said that Sasha got a nose full of porcupine quills. All week long we were terrified of getting attacked by a porcupine.
3) We caught three snakes and saw five!
4) The uncles chopped down a large tree that had been threatening to fall down since 1997. Even without its branches, it was still 60 feet tall, and it made a huge crash as it hit the ground.
5) During an intense game of capture the flag, my dad jumped down to the beach and landed hard on a rock, either spraining or breaking his ankle (we still don't know because he insists upon not getting an x-ray). Fortunately, he got injured on the second to last day, so he wasn't hobbling around the Island for the rest of the week.
6) We found a dead bat clinging to a tree. (See picture below)
1) One of the two baby eagles that has always lived in a huge nest above the Green Cabin must have overeaten or something, because it was on the ground, walking around! You could literally get a foot away from it. Sadly, while playing a game of capture the flag, I found it lying dead on the shore, with its neck twisted against a boulder. My Uncle Pete and Uncle Tom put it in a bag and gave it to the DNR, who said the eagle was about three years old.
2) We never saw it, but my Uncle Tom said that Sasha got a nose full of porcupine quills. All week long we were terrified of getting attacked by a porcupine.
3) We caught three snakes and saw five!
4) The uncles chopped down a large tree that had been threatening to fall down since 1997. Even without its branches, it was still 60 feet tall, and it made a huge crash as it hit the ground.
5) During an intense game of capture the flag, my dad jumped down to the beach and landed hard on a rock, either spraining or breaking his ankle (we still don't know because he insists upon not getting an x-ray). Fortunately, he got injured on the second to last day, so he wasn't hobbling around the Island for the rest of the week.
6) We found a dead bat clinging to a tree. (See picture below)
Anyway, it was another great Island, with much swimming, fishing, ping-pong (Not to mention "scar pong", a new version of ping-pong we invented in which the winner of a volley gets to smack the ping-pong ball as hard as they can at the loser's bare back. We were all covered in angry, ping-pong ball-sized welts by the end of the week), and general relaxing and having fun. Also, Luke passed his swim test, and can now roam the Island without a life jacket! Here are some of the 400 pictures my mom took (more to come later).
My cousin Matthew catching some minnows. He caught AT LEAST 1,000 minnows over the course of the week. Not kidding.
A dead bat we found clinging to a tree.
Some of the cousins reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid (which, by the way, is hilarious) in the rec. house.
A chimney log adds some excitement to our fire.
My brother Luke with Sasha on the rec. house dock.
One of the loons that live on Clear Lake.
My Uncle Dan filleting a fish. Not for the faint of heart!
I caught a keeper blue gill this year, but it was to small to fillet, so boo hoo.
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