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Monday, July 14, 2003
Now that I'm back in the big smoke recovering for a BRUTAL weekend camping. I'm talking about crappy weather, it was none stop rain Thursday on the way to Kingston(3 hrs from Toronto) to group up with the two fellows in the group(Matt, Mike). We left Kingston at 5am to head to the camp site(2 hr drive) and again RAIN. Btw, if you want to know where I went your going to have to email me. This place it totally awesome, out of the way, but only about 4 hrs. From Toronto, compared to 3.5 hrs. to Algonquin Park and A LOT and I do mean A LOT less crowded. Algonquin is nice but EVERYONE goes there. This place was clean and quite, it is a major fishing hole. Most people we did see up there were fishing in powerboats but most of the time they were trolling with electric motors. The lake is massive and you can move around for a LONG time without having to Portage the canoe. Friday was RAIN and more rain and it was cold, felt like the fall, the wind was blowing like stink. I only wish I had a video camera(oh sorry no pics. I forgot the Digital camera :-( ) I was looking towards the canoe when all of a sudden(no word of a lie) the canoe took took off 5 feet into the air and flipped 3 times before it stopped! Good thing there wasn't any damage! No bugs to speak of, I guess the wind was to much for them. Friday evening turned out ok, we saw for the first time some blue sky and the wind calmed down. But that was short lived, during overnight the wind picked up and it of course started to rain once again. The plan was to wake up at 5am and head out to do some fishing. That didn't happen, looking out the tent it didn't take a genius to figure that we were better off sleeping in. Saturday was over cast all day, and the wind was up and down all day. Making the paddling really difficult. For dinner on Saturday we had 2 Bass and 2 Walleye, first time for Walleye and man is that a good tasting fish. After dinner we clean the camp up to avoid any visitors during the night(or so we thought) and down to the lake to wash up the dishes. What we didn't expect was the dozens and dozens of crayfish eating up some of the inners of the bass and walleye. So off to catching crayfish at 11:30pm for the morning bass fishing we had planned to do before heading home on the Sunday. So off to bed until about 5am to do some fishing, but it wasn't a quite evening by any means, oh no! At about 4am I hear this noise outside thinking it's Matt giving us a wakeup call. I woke up and said, "Ok, Ok. I'm up." I then heard Matt say, "That's not me". Matt looked out of the tent and saw that the jacket that was hung on our drying line was down on the ground. Then he realized that he had a granola bar in his jacket. Out he goes and throws the granola bar into the lake. Back into the tent he goes and we(Ed and I) asked if he had anything else, he couldn't recall having anything else. He then woke Mike(his deaf brother, who was still asleep through all this since he didn't hear anything) if he had any food, Mike said, "No, just the sealed cereal bag he had in his bag", Into the lake the cereal went as well. So after all that fun, you can only try and get some sleep again without trying to listen to every little noise you end up hearing in the bush, we can only hope it was just a raccoon that came to visit us that morning. I'm sure if it had been a black bear we would have known. About 1 1/2 hrs later we were on the lake trying to do some fishing. It was dead, not a single bite. 9am, pack up and head home.
The moral of this story. If you haven't camped before, always, and I do mean ALWAYS string your food into a tree and make sure it's away from any other branches or trees(Make sure it's a good 5-6 feet away from anything else and a good 10 ft above the ground). Oh and make sure it's a atleast 100 ft from camp.
Alright enough of my camping story, and back to technology. This week I'm going to try and finish off my $15US GPS unit. Yes folks you heard right, $15 GPS. Nothing fancy, no LCD display, but it works with any application that can use a GPS. How did I come about getting a $15 GPS, well a few months back I found one of the surplus stores in the US had a few dozen of these things(these are the SAME units that are used in GM's On*Star) vehicles. I'll post some pictures in the next few days. Sorry to say they sold out pretty fast. Also this week I hope to do that comparison of Netstumbler and Kismet.
logged by Digiital( ) at Monday, July 14, 2003
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