Sizzle Into Drizzle, July 16, 2012

It was a Monday so we lost many of our hikers ... summer is our busy season - holidays, visitors, fish! Still off we headed from hot sunny Charlotte, up island heading to Drizzle Lake, where we were taking in some "goodies" for the researchers.

Even though our gardens are needing water, there was plenty in the bog ... we chose to go in runners and just get wet ... softest walking one can imagine but that doesn't mean easy as of course you sink into it!

Trail ... well, we had a good intuitive trail leader armed with a google map and ... there was some flagging tape but you really wanted to keep your eyes on the ground, to miss any sink holes!

After half an hour or so we came upon an early cabin and then further on a bit to the 100 year old [this year] cabin and lab!  Research has been carried on since the 70's.

After checking the cabin and admiring the new floor we headed down to the lake to give the researchers some goodies ... closer in size to Pure Lake than Mayer there was quite a fetch for the strong northwesterlies. Surprised when we came upon them the first thing noticeable was we were in the tee-shirts and shorts and they were in toques, helly hansens, jackets and gumboots and had a small fire going. It took us very little time to understand it was a strong cold wind sweeping across the lake right into their camp. They were longing for rain just so the wind would stop!

After not too long a visit we headed back retracing our steps sort of ... a lovely hike and even a bit of history. Our goodies sure were appreciated too. No signs of a drizzle in sight at least for a few days!