Tripometer – 2585 mi
Gas Gauge – 200.724
Location – Fall Lake Campground, Ely, MN
Lodging – $26
Cans of OFF – 2
Waking early (for the second day straight – whoa) we packed and headed up the road before 10am thinking that most campers wouldn’t vacate before noon and competition for the sites would be low. Boy were we wrong. On Saturday we identified about 5 sites that were going to be leaving on Sunday. By the time we arrived at the campground there were two sites left. Thankfully we scored the best campsite we’ve had to date.
Our campsite for at least the next week overlooks Fall Lake (We are perched about 30-40 feet above the surface of the lake on a fairly steep cliff. (We think that Ranger has a new hobby of letting his toys fall off the cliff so that we have to unleash him to retrieve them on his own.) The northern section of the lake is within the boundary waters park and is off limits without a permit – The boat launch at the park is actually BWCA entry point #24. We have been amusing ourselves by watching the fresh, new, excited faces headed into the wilderness and the haggard satisfied faces headed out. Even though this lake allows motorized boats, canoes are by far the preferred method of travel.
We hear that fishing is excellent. Sadly, the water is only 6” deep and very rocky near shore making this much more of a boat fishing destination. Ranger has never been in a canoe before. (It was a huge oversight on our part, not putting him in a canoe at home to get him used to the experience.)
The rest of today was spent mostly in our camp chairs admiring the lake 🙂