Thunder Bay Ambiguous Adventures : June 2015

K and I had the most excruciating but best experience ever!

We did a hike-in camping trip for one night at Tee Harbour. It was a total of 22km round trip after hiking to the top of the giant. We hiked 6.5 k into the site and dropped off our stuff and set up. We left on a thursday, didn't pay the parking fee, and began to hike. The way there seemed very short. After setting up we were pumped. We made it to the top of the giant and danced our silly little hearts out.. I thought K was going to die trying to find the edge. We ate a lot, took a nap and finally, headed back to camp.

We went to the "beach" and napped in the sand for a bit while listening to the only station that was reachable -- our favourite -- the country station!!!!!!!!!! After finishing a bottle of wine, we had a nice bonfire and were exhausted so headed to bed (even after the naps on the beach, rocks, and hammock). For the first hour, it was impossible to sleep. I got spooked by a loud noise in the bush. It was a buck. I went outside and chased the buck out of our campsite like a crazy woman. It continued to come back until the buck and I had a 1v1 with rocks as weapons. When I look back I have no idea why I wanted it out of our campsite?? It wasn't harming us?.. anyway, that happened. But it was a warm night but damp. In the morning, I awoke to the buck standing outside our tent :-).
The hike back to my car was the worst ever. It felt like it took 2 days. We came back on Friday and everyone seemed to be heading out so we looked (and smelled) very grungy! We were joking around that we had been out in the wilderness for 15 years. Every corner we turned we had crossed our fingers it was the Sea Lion bridge. When we finally got to it I ran ahead with arms open yelling "FINALLY 15 YEARS AND WE ARE OUT! KALI THEY REBUILT THE BRIDGE!" Just my luck there was a guy fishing off the bridge when I got to it.
When we hit the sign that it was 0.7 km to the parking lot I was so desperate I began counting my steps to see how close we were. When we got to my car I had a 30$ parking fine. I felt really accomplished after this trip.