Halee being 15 wasn’t that excited about going. No computer or phone over at the island. But she was a trooper and some of the time she actually enjoyed it. Especially when she got to go kayaking with her brother and got him soaked. Trent did a lot of fishing. Us 3 girls did a lot of remembering.
PAST AND PRESENT
The part of the island that we camped on as kids still looked the same to Julee and me. Jill says so don't remember alot of the shrubs and trees. They were there just all grown now. There were only like 6 sites on the island and now there is 18. The part that we used to camped on had 2 covered shelters covering the picnic table which we always got one.
Unfortunatly this trip these sites were already taken.
I remember on particular day a storm came up just as we were sitting down to eat. See here the storms appears with no warning. Jill was small and would be in the way and could get hurt, we told her to sit right there and don't move, while the rest of us, Mom, Dad, Mamie, Bampie, Julee and me, ran to the boats to pull them ashore more and tie them better. By this time it was thunder and lighting and raining. When we got back to the table, Jill was still sitting there and had ate her HOT supper. We still laugh about it. She ate a hot supper while we ate a COLD supper.
One night back then, we went to the bathrooms following a porcipine. I just found out that it was Julee, me and Jill. I couldn't remember who was with me until this camping trip. Jill thought it was a puppy. While we were there, this might sound gross to some people but to Jill and me it was exciting, we went looking for the old outhouses. Now they have all new ones. We found the start of the path and then it faded. But we finally found it and found the 2 holes, now covered up, where the old outhouses were.
There also was a spring on the island, where we got our drinking and cooking water from. We found that to. Now it is sealed off, due to the State of Maine made them do it for health reason, due to alot more people coming to the island. So now we have to carry our water in from the main land.
Back in the 1900's there was a bunch of 2 room cottages and a main dining hall. People would come here to fish, which the lake back then and now is famous for the rainbow trout and landlock salmon. They called it "The Birches." 
The resort burnt down and they never rebuild it, due to the economy changing and people weren't going on vacations. Jill always had this plastic bag of crap when she was little. I kept on telling her to throw it away and she wouldn't. She eventually lost it. While we were there, of course we went hiking and exploring. She took me right to the spot where all that crap was, which you still can see after all these years. She said see "Joyce here is all the broken pieces of pottery I used to have." So the crap became pottery, I never new. In the area where the pottery is we are thinking that this is the site of the dining hall. So now Jill has another bag of pottery. That was so exciting to her.
Every morning when I got up I would make my coffee and take it to the water's edge and enjoy the peaceful start of the day, while Jill and the kids still slept. I was always joined by a male and female loon, and the beautiful scenery. Morning is my favorite time of the day. When Julee got there she also joined me. 
All to soon it was time to go home. Us 3 girls didn't want to leave. Julee has suggested that we do this not every year but every other year. And I am going to MAKE sure that happens.
It was such a awesome vacation, the best I have had in a very very long time.
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