We canoe back to get the rest of our things

Red squirrel trying to open belly pouch
 by it's zipper to get nuts!

After sleeping listening to the flow of the water in the lake, especially the parts of the night while it was windy, I got woken up fairly early by a red squirrel trying to break open a bag of almonds. After telling him off a few times I gave up and put the bag of nuts in the tent. 

We canoed back to the Grand Vitara to get the items we didn't bring with us on the first trip. Since we picked up the canoe for $300  just a few days before leaving for the trip we weren't even sure if the canoe was going to sea worthy.  We'd also never canoed together so we didn't know how we'd handle it and so we didn't load the canoe too much. On the way back from camping we just made one trip with all the junk we brought. 

In the canoe with Taya - Photographer: Nina Haigh

As it turns out our 16ft canoe is a genuine Indian brand canoe, made in fibreglass and handles well. My companion wasn't familiar with canoes of this size, but I remember using similar canoes in my youth. Apparently it doesn't matter if you haven't canoed in 35 years, it's like riding a bike, you don't forget.  

This canoe is weird too, in the sense that the benches are not made for kneeling but for sitting. This isn't a bad thing considering that I have bad knees on which I should not kneel long periods of time.