Camping up the Gunflint Part 3

We like to get off the beaten path, but we got WAY off this time.  We followed a little road down to a canoe launch and had a hatchback picnic of crackers and smoked fish from Dockside in Grand Marais.  The dragonflies were amazing.  Thousands of them and all sizes and colors.  Really amazing.

  

 Then we headed to McFarland Lake because Grandma Betty had told me that she and Grandpa Hank had camped there.  Well, Betty and Hank were bad to the bone because this was a bare bones campground.  Only about 3 sites, not on the water.  The lake was beautiful and there were lots of canoe groups heading into the Boundary Waters.  And some amazing cabins.   

After visiting McFarland, we ended up taking a Darren shortcut down a logging road.  It slowly, but surely because a two rut road.  When the grass was growing almost completely over the road we turned around.

Back at camp for supper and while the apple cake was baking in the Dutch oven, we headed out to fish. 

This video is the quick boat trip out to the BassHole. 

 Darren lining up for the catch!

 I caught the first Walleye.  A small Walleye, but a Walleye nonetheless.  It went back to grow a little more. 

 I like the smiles in Sam's silhouette. 

Apple cake.  Very ashy apple cake, but "just the way I like it" is the rule of the camp or you cook next time.