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Jun 2, 2009 - Rest Day on Birchcliffe Lake
The cabin has two small bedrooms with bunk beds which will sleep five people. The main room has a couple tables,
chairs, a counter, and a tiny wood stove. Small windows give a view of the lake, and the birch covered hill to the west
which is where I presume the lake gets its name. The counter has a small hand pump for water, although this no longer
works. It is easy enough to go down to the lake and fetch water from there though. I spent the first hour or so of the
day fetching firewood from the surrounding forest. A small buck saw provided in the cabin helped, but most of the dead
wood I could find was thoroughly rotten. I eventually found enough partially rotten wood to last for breakfast. It was
very cold outside so we spent most of the day indoors reading and napping. It warmed up a bit in the afternoon with
some sunshine so we took the canoe out on the lake. At the east end of the lake we saw a pair of moose, one male and
the other female. At the west end of the lake we watched a bear foraging for food along the shore. As we paddled back
to the cabin, we both thought we saw a bear in the bushes, but it may have simply been our eyes playing tricks with the
shadows. Spent a long time cooking supper (lentil curry and rice with stuffed Naan bread), and baked a loaf of bannock
inside the wood stove. Played cards by candlelight and then went for a paddle out on the lake after dark in the calm,
to look at the stars and listen to the loon and frog calls.
The window was broken so Katharina fixed it with a blue foamy and some duct tape.
Mike the mosquito exterminator.
Two moose (a pair of meese).
Black bear.
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