Cliff Lake Canoe Camping

Fresh for 2007 is camping with a canoe at cliff lake. Anyone who may have looked at last summers photos on here can recognize cliff lake- i mean it looks like a lagoon in the sun, so taking a canoe only made too much sense. Above is how we got it done: all the gear in the canoe, all the food in the tube getting dragged behind tha boat.

That was the crew of us our first trip out there (minus my girl who took the picture.) It was a good night, great warm weather with a full moon that night.

That's Rob and I on the way back in the morning, paddling all the gear back to the car. This trip was the first one we took out to Cliff to canoe camp. We took it relatively easy as far as where we camped, but the second time wasn't quite the case- we kinda went for it....

There's an island, about 3 miles back into Cliff lake, which is small, but has one decent camp site for a tent. We camped right on the rocky beach and had a fire there, which was more than excellent the first night out there.

That's me, really soaking it all in....at least while I could. The second night out there we were caught in an aggressive windstorm that whipped all through dinner time, into the evening, and still wouldn't let up in the morning. We got virtually no sleep that evening. My tent kept collapsing from the wind blowing the poles out of their sockets. Every hour i was running out of the tent to fix it, then jumping back in, into my bag, just for a little sleep. By morning (proally 7am) we both wanted to just get outta there. The paddle back was ferocious though- wind blowing hard in the opposite direction.

On our way out to the island, without even a clue as to thinking if i should've brought more rope....oh yeah we tied that tent down with all the rope we had, the thing looked like a tent stuck in a cats cradle. Wish i had photos of that- for comedic purposes, not wistful ones- thats for sure....

Overall it was an excellent time, but damn if it wasn't taxing on us at points! Beautiful site though, and decent weather still made it a good time, despite setbacks on the last evening. I think i got my canoeing fix for awhile.....