Grateful for where we live, who we know, where we come from and that which is unknown.

Stoke





photogs By: Nancy Berglund on a sunny July 13th, 2008.

Know what's pretty rare? Summer surf on Lake Superior, all done under sunny skies. It's been well over 2 months since i've been out surfing and not a lot of days in there, where there was much surf to begin with. But yeah, some how, some way, managed to surf friday night, saturday and sunday. West South West winds, whipped up some fun ones after a big low moved through friday night. Nance and i booked it northeastward to the little northern hamlet of Terrace Bay, Sat. AM...on time for some wicked sessions with great people. Surfed well into the evening. Posted up at Jer's place for the night and then headed out for a mellow surf today. At this point, thoroughly surfed. Enjoy all.

Birds eye on Superior



Chris Joseph, formally of T-Bay and now living in Squamish, BC gets a fresh one.

hoot yeah!!


All photogs by the lovely and talented Nancy Berglund.

Had the fortunate opportunity to jump aboard Jeff Roney's 35' J-35 sailboat 'CHAZ' last night to help crew the boat for a wednesday night race out in the bay. Gorgeous evening, deadly time. Great dude, who knows his stuff.



My plea to the surf gods and goddesses may be working...could be something on tap for the weekend. out.

photo's by: Eric Berglund

My summer vacation. By Eric Berglund....well, just some fun shots from the start of it. Some time well spent out at the lake with Nance's family and some time rocking out at my sis's wedding festivities. In a way, it was just like summer vacation, i.e. not having to work for a few days; although i'm a firm believer that after work and on the weekends, it is still summer vacation. Oh yeah and hey, if there is a surf god out there, will you please bring us some waves here on the lake sometime well before next christmas. Thanks.

Nance and Michael doin what they do


Dogs soaring


Eagles soaring



photos By Eric Berglund

Last days of June and the 1st of July....feeling like summer.


photo's by Eric Berglund

This is Fly Daily turned out a story from CBC News about lakes across Canada being turned into mine dump sites - the day after that article was released the fisheries minister, Loyola Hearn came back with dumping mining waste into water is “more responsible”. Who paid him off to say that?

“Although the Fisheries Act prevents the disposal of harmful substances into fish-bearing waters, an inconspicuous subsection of the mining effluent regulations known as Schedule Two allows federal bureaucrats to redefine lakes as “tailings impoundment areas.”

Where it applies, the regulation effectively absolves mining companies from having to build man-made containment ponds removed from natural water systems, allowing them to dump toxic mine tailings directly into reclassified lakes.”

Check out the article here on CBC.

This ones for Loyola...some random dude named Thomas on river X.



photo By: Eric Berglund

Oyster Mushroom

Didn't realize these shrooms could be consumed until i flipped through my new mushroom guide "Mushrooms of the Boreal Forest" By: Eugene F. Bossenmaier the other day. Handy little guide by the way, featuring more than 200 species of mushrooms and fungi found throughout the boreal forest, ranging from Alaska to Ontario and Minnesota.

Might need to go back out and see if we can find these guys again. Got Lutsen out solo in the canoe this eve. Paddled for a good hour and he pretty much chilled right out, after a short episode of trying to bail out over the gunwales. Winston slid on water with his new standup paddle-board setup, good excerise for the flat summer conditions around here ..might have been the first SUP on Boulevard lake . Nice night to be outside.
peace
e


photo By: Eric Berglund

FOR THOSE WHO LIKE IT FISHEY 
A native brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), from a jaunt afield earlier in June.  Quite a hog for BT standards.

Otherwise, if anyone out there needs instruction on how to dig a big hole in their basement floor and install a sump pit...give me a ring.  Honestly, not nearly as scary as i had expected. 

word.

photo By: eric berglund

Summer Solstice Hombre's!!

Summer? Uh, yeah, it doesn't quite feel like summer around here; except for maybe the bugs. Venture out into the bush and expect there to be a blood bath, cause it aint pretty, that's for certain. I guess it did manage to warm up enough at mid day, that it was actually pretty hot while out for my run. Hot even, imagine that. OK..so maybe it feels a bit like summer...the surf sure is flat enough. Lutsen strikes the old age of 14 weeks on Sunday and is only getting smarter and my sis gets married in two weeks from today...aka. party. Otherwise, life rolls on. See what we get up to this weekend. woot.

peace
e


photo : e.

Sweet wild edibles!! Morchella elata, morel mushrooms of the northern woods. Came upon these guys this morning after first spotting some false morels. All within about a 100 meters of a 400+ lbs black bear chowing down on a moose carcass. Wild times in wild places. Cooked these sweeties up with a little butter and shared them with Nance as an appetizer before dinner....zing!



photo By: Eric Berglund