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| Day 1: underwater revealed... |
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| Day 1: A young Tom |
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| Day 2: Started to clear up after a couple days of rain |
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| Day 2: A double rainbow! |
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| Day 3: Our one campsite beside rapids. We enjoyed one of our favourite activities - swimming out into the rapids, floating down and riding the eddy back. Fun! |
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| Day 4: Reservoir Dozois 50 years after being flooded |
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| Day 4: Rein, Silka and I collected driftwood and rocks on the beach and created a sculpture. Here it is captured as the sun was going down. |
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| Day 5: Rest Day on our own island on Reservoir Dozois. Tom is perusing the maps and figuring out where were are going next |
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| Day 5: Rest day continued... Rein fishes as Silka creates... |
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| Day 6: Out of the morning fog |
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| Day 6: A silver fog |
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| Day 6: Making ripples in the glass |
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| Day 7: Rein became our fire starter this trip |
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| Day 7: Preparing for dinner |
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| Day 7: Ah, the beaches...still on Resorvoir Dozois |
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| Day 7: The same beach... |
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| Day 7: A child's play become so simple - down to drawing in the sand |
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| Day 9: The skies took our breath away this trip |
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| Day 10: Shawn and Julia arrive - Day 10 - Yippee! |
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| Day 10: Getting ready to go fishing |
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| Day 11: Ahhh.... |
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| Day 11: Paddling in Shawn and Julia's beautiful cedar strip canoe... |
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| Day 11: Rein helping Tom drag the canoe through some rapids |
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| Day 11: Tom taking a rest... |
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| Day 11: Set up at a fantastic campsite with a sand spit that extended to an island. Bear tracks going to the island - when will it make its way back? |
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| Day 11: Julia taking a rest... |
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| Day 12: the group shot before a day of paddling and dragging through a creek |
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| Day 12: Rein saves a dragonfly from drowning |
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| Day 12: Silka rock hops to the canoe |
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| Day 12: Walking the canoe through one of many shallow sections |
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| Day 13: Shawn and Julia take a rest day and we move on. Here are Rein and Silka portaging together. |
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| Day 13: Portaging with Dad |
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| Day 13: a sky's reflection |
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| Day 13: Who is that bespectacled with a speckled frog? |
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| Day 13: One of many spectacular sunsets |
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| Day 14: the Kirby-Olvet family was here... |
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| Day 14: Rein catches a Walleye - one of the many fish we did not end up eating - don't ask.... |
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| Day 14: Silka plays against a back drop of spectacular light |
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| Day 15: Woke up to the sun's rays extending through the trees and onto the forest floor around us |
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| Day 15: Look at that Fly Agaric - it was the size of a plate! |
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| Day 15: Our last sunset on trip |
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| Day 16: Rein and Silka successfully paddling on their own... |
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| ...with Dad walking alongside them |
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| Day 16: Sailing the last stretch back to our car |
