Voyager National Park

Voyager NP is about 40% water.

The only way into the park is by water.

We stayed at a rustic lodge outside the park on Kabetogama Lake.  We drove to a park enterance and took a guided boat tour.  There are about 12 million islands in the park...well maybe not that many but a lot.  The day we took the boat tour was beautiful.  Sunny, mid 70s, a light breeze, just perfect.

As normal the pictures do not show the true beauty or the detail.  We saw lots of bald eagles, loons, various water fowl and a deer.  None of witch you'll be able to pick out.

 2 eagles atop the dead tree.

Loon

After about 2 hours we arrived at an island with the Kettle Falls Hotel.  At one time this was privately owned and operated but park services has taken over and did some big time renovation.

The walk to the lodge

While the rest of the tour group was eating lunch we walked around the grounds.

This is Kettle Falls

The other side of the water is Canada

During the boat tour we actually went into Canadian waters and back into the US...without passports or checkpoints!  So we have now done this in Canada twice and Mexico once.

The next day we drove over to another entry point.  We were late getting there and I got to help the ranger take down and fold the flag.

This is me studying some scat.  Maybe fox.

Sun set by our lodge

Sadly the Aurora Borealis were not active while we were there.