Monday, October 4, 2010

Back from the woods


Hey, we're back from our canoe trip!
We were in Temagami for 20 days.
We were rained on for 19 of them.
We ate 12 different species of wild mushrooms! (Not all at the same meal...)
I did not find it warm enough to swim, even once. One day I was almost going to do it, then the wind picked up again and I came to my senses.
We stayed at 12 different campsites.
We made 12 portages.

Highlights:

I found white matsutakes, for the first time ever. I have been looking for them for about twenty years.
We ate a lot of boletes and suillus mushrooms. When fried in ghee and salted, they taste a lot like bacon, or chicken skin or something very meat-like, fatty and satisfying.
River otters: What could be more thrilling?

No comments:

Post a Comment