Wow Days ..

Greetings Everyone!

We've been catching up on chores around the cabin and enjoying the brief days of sunshine.  It's been rather warm, snowie and cloudy lately.

The other day Ernie went into Sterling to pick-up our mail and got a few supplies.  Before he took off across the frozen lake - he set his GPS coordinates. We just starting using a Garmin GPS this winter and its quite the marvel in technology. Each time we cross the lake, the GPS tracks our route to and from the lower landing -- which has kept us on the correct snowmachine trail. Undoubtedly, this will assist us greatly when crossing during low visibility.  We are also  looking forward to setting the GPS coordinates to the Upper Landing - where we launch our boat during the summer.

Ernie setting the GPS coordinates.

The other day when we were getting ready to sit down for breakfast - Ernie spotted three moose crossing the lake.  Two females and one young bull.  This is the first time we've seen three moose crossing the frozen lake from the mainland to the island.  They came ashore just down from our cabin.  It was exciting to just sit and watch them.  

Then, about 45 minutes later we spotted three wolves crossing the lake along the same route the moose had taken across the lake to the island.  At first we thought they were coyotes but as we watched them it became apparent they were definitely wolves.  The alpha male was black in color and seemed intent about leading his pack across the lake.  We got so excited that we just watched the trio as they followed the moose tracks -- they too disappeared onto the island where the moose had - just down from our cabin.  Unfortunately, we were so caught up in watching the wolves lope across the frozen lake that we forgot to grab the camera to take a picture.

We have no idea where the wolves went after they came onto the island.  The next day however, Ernie spotted two of the moose over by Clancy's place - the big cow and the little bull. We've no idea where the other female moose was - perhaps hidden in the trees.

 Later - we did see our island resident moose.  She came to our cabin and browsed along her browsing route around our cabin - so we knew it was her.  She sure has grown up and didn't look pregnant.   

 

This is the big cow moose that Ernie saw over by Clancy's cabin.

Take care everyone - and we'll touch base again!