Day 2
The second day began bright and early, I awoke to another cloudy morning, I was hoping to get some pictures of the sunrise but no such look, and my only thought was that at least it wasn’t raining. By the time all my friends got up it was 10am we decided to make breakfast. On the menu were 6 eggs and a whole package of bacon. I done up my eggs English breakfast style scrambled with butter and seasonings, both my friends seemed to like this recipe. We finished off breakfast with a package of bacon fried in a frying pan over some embers; this was a much needed fat boost for our day. Since it wasn’t raining we decided to hop in the canoe and go for a bit of a ride around the lake, to checkout some scenery and throw in the rod a couple of times.
Fishing from the canoe
Canoeing over the lake was definitely a great experience, as there was nobody else camping on the lake we were completely secluded. It was a great feeling, a feeling of inner peace overcame me, I only wished I could do this more often. On the way over to the other end of the lake we decided to see if we could checkout a few other campsites for firewood; as ours wasn’t the greatest location for this, it was surrounded by a marsh and a few streams making fire gathering virtually impossible without getting your shoes soaked. We found a site with an already downed cedar and proceeded to chop it to bits and pieces. Luckily we brought two axes at this time, with me having a 17 inch axe and my friend having a 25 inch one we made short work of the cedar.
Real world lumberjacks
Mid-swing action into a dead tree
Beautiful Trillium
We loaded up the canoe and two of us went back to the site to bring back the wood while the other stayed and chopped some more wood. We brought in enough wood to last us the day and night, only took us a couple of hours. At least this was work we did not mind, being out there in the outdoors with all the fresh air; far better for the mind and body than sitting in our cubicles at work.
After the wood gathering it was time for our 3 pound pork loin roast that I brought with us; I had gotten it a week earlier from St Jacobs Market in Waterloo. We found two Y shaped branches and proceeded to make a spit, the first skewer we made was perfect except that for some weird reason my buddy chopped about 20 inches away from it making it way to short, so he had to go back into the forest and make a bigger one, could have saved himself the work if he just left it as it was. After finally making the spit we built a big fire to the one side of the pit so we could always have fresh embers fueling our spit. We had attached the pork loin to the skewer with some thin rope and proceeded to slowly cook it over the next several hours.
Pork roast slowly cooking over the embers
Finished Result some of the best meat I've ever eaten
The wait was a good time as we drank the beers that we brought over for the trip, I also brought over some buckwheat honey to glaze the roast as it slowly cooked over the embers this also helped the meat from burning too much on the outside. After about 3 hours of cooking it was all ready, the meat turned out to be quite amazing, it was cooked thoroughly through. It was one of the most amazing dinners that I’ve had in the wild, nothing better than pork roast and beer around the campfire. Day 2 was also an early night as our day trek had depleted our energy, after a couple of drinks we went to bed around 10 o’clock.
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