It has been a crazy couple of weeks. First we went camping to evade a music festival in town.

We worked out a kayak lift system that didn’t break us. We hitched our kayaks to a horse drawn carriage and were transported in comfort to the shore of a beautiful lake.

We loaded up the boats and headed to our favorite campsite, complete with Adirondack chairs.

It was sunny but cool. I swam my final letter in the alphabet, “W”, and sunned myself on a rock to stave off hypothermia. Tim swam longer than me and had a harder time warming up.

Not my best but it’s too cold to keep swimming.

We found a great tent site, where a tree had already fallen. Nature won’t strike twice in the same place, would she?

We sat and looked at the water and clouds for hours on end.

We returned home Sunday, I worked Monday, we went out to dinner for our 18th anniversary, then packed again.

We are back on Seguin Island! This will be about our 14th fall. We spent summer 2008 ad season caretakers and have returned most years since then to help close up the island in the fall.

We packed enough food and water for as long as we will be here. Luckily the Wednesday Warriors were here and they were a big help hauling our gear from the boat to the beach and then up the hill.

We were soon joined by one set of kids and grand kiddos. What a blast. Naturally we ate lobster and corn, found beach glass, hiked trails, gave tours of the tower, flew airplanes, cracked crab claws, watched sunsets, ate delicious meals, hunted crickets in the kitchen, and played lots of cards.

That’s them at the sunset bench we built in 2008.

Great memories are made here.