Day 8 Chisolm Brook lazy day

Day 8
Well I guess the paddling finally caught up to us. We really slept in! We woke up and went outside to pee and watch the moose feeding in the stream again. Probably one of the cows from yesterday. We went back to sleep and got up to have oatmeal at around noon.

We talked about the awesome nighttime noises, again especially all the birds in the marsh. Other than that we read and we slept. We did wake up to see two groups’ go by. One of them stopped at the third cell. Boy were we happy when they left. Human beings are noisy!
Just as the group was arriving I saw a moose run into the bushes on the opposite shore. Not 15 minutes after they had left, a Bull Moose came out of the bushes to feed in the river. We got some pictures of him, too. I guess he disliked human noise as well.

It drizzled off and on all day. In the mid afternoon the sun tried to poke through and we treated to a wonderful rainbaw. Actually for a short time it was a double rainbow, very cool!

We spent the afternoon and early evening enjoying the wildlife. A Bufflehead was there with her one duckling. She was very tiny, but had a spunky personality. She was diving for food as her duckling hid on the shore. Suddenly, a merganser swam toward her from the opposite downriver. I thought I saw a duckling with her, but then…..No duckling? When she got close to the little Bufflehead we saw one, two, three, four, five, six… little ducklings jump off her back. It was really cool.

The two mommas had a spat, and the Bufflehead moved aside, to let thew merganser family pass. She then began to feed and dive again. About five minutes later, another merganser mom with four ducklings came by and the same thing happened again.

We made a dinner of Top Ramen and Dana also had a sandwich. We played solitaire for a bit (Dana score –535, mine –315… so far)
We went to sleep listening to the many different bird and frog noises, including what we determined to be an insect that sounded like Curly from the three stooges. We told some moose jokes (you can’t see me, while holding up a finger to hide yourself) and went off to bed. Good lazy day.