The sky is overcast as I set out on my paddle at 0630 hrs.  I wanted to get an early start, since this is Sunday and Al is fixing biscuits and gravy for breakfast. I paddled all the way out to the entrance and back and didn’t see any wildlife other than this solitary loon.  I think he may be one of the pair of loons I saw yesterday.  Don’t know where his mate has gone off to, but he looked forlorn and kept calling for her with that sad loon call.  

There are lots of elderberries and devil’s club for the bears to eat, but nary a bear.

The elderberries were really thriving at the site of an old landslide.

This pretty little patch of hostas was thriving also.