Images from the Quetico Adventure!

I apologise not sending photos by sat phone, but as you can see even the text was a challenge!  So here below are nine quite different photos taken from our trip that hopefully give you some further feel of what the experience was all about!

This photo was taken at the point where we started the adventure. Sorry about the quality, but it was taken by a weary canoeist who had just returned from his trip, so his thoughts were probably elsewhere!

Butterflies:  I forgot to mention the huge amount of very diversely coloured butterflies we saw every day along the trip. Other than mosquitoes, who were considered military/airforce, these butterflies were the most populous ‘bird’ we saw! 

Terrapins or Turtles:  This was our most friendly one, I even had him in my hand a while, but we saw a huge amount of them along the way too. Clearly unaware that humans could harm them! 

Solitude in the Wilderness:  End of day, view of the empty canoe looking from our campsite just after sunset on one of the good evenings, around 9pm.

Imi, ‘The Man’, focused on the steps ahead, complete with the big, heavy, ’green bag’, on an easy portage section, before he stepped off the cliff and injured his knee. (This was a rare case when the portage was relatively clear, with fairly uniform light for a photo.)

Huckleberry Finn / Robinson Crusoe day: This was the day Imi stepped, fully clothed, off the unexpected rock edge, into the water. I rigged up a washing line to help dry off all his ‘only dry’ gear. The scenery is typical of the many islands we camped on.

We had some truly special sunsets next to the lakes. No mosquitoes, no rain, warm and just the sound of loons around.

This was the morning (5am) of the longest day of the year. It was very impressive in its vivid colours.

Victorious Imi, outside Canadian Canoe Outfitters, after we had showered and dropped off all the gear!

Read Imi's wrap-up blog post - in which the professor speaks from the heart.
Read Howard's wrap-up - including the missing day of drama