Nidya Lake Part Deux - The Reckoning

I decided to split our trip to Nidya Lake into two entries, because the original was getting long and boring a la Lord of the Rings. Lake of fire this, from whence it came that. Ugh - epic. Speaking of epics, we had a Harry Potter moment at the camp.

We found a Sorting Hat.

You remember the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter.

Sean tried to sort us into our various houses, but failed because we were all too busy fighting over who got to be the Quidditch captain. If you're unsure of what Quidditch is, watch this video.

I found this news piece to be exceptionally entertaining because it takes a rare combination of nerdiness and athleticism to pull together a Quidditch team. I'm actually surprised that a group of jocks with absolutely no interest in the mythology behind the game hasn't pulled a team together in order to dominate the nerds - just because they could. And man...it would be so easy. Did you see that team from McGill? It's easy to find the square root of their dorkiness.

We saw some interesting bug-life (no, not Thug Life) at camp, including this weird lobster-tailed bee and lots of GIGANTIC dragonflies.




The dragonflies were feasting on the mosquitoes and black flies. I saw a dragonfly land on a nearby branch (less than a foot away from me) and it was devouring what looked like a huge house fly. I tried to get some video of the carnage, but it flew away. Luckily, I caught a snap of this dragon on a log. It's body was at least four inches long.





Sadly, there weren't enough dragonflies to keep the black flies and mosquitoes away from Jamie's delicious legs. He got eaten alive when he ran to the neighbor's place to say hi. His legs looked like some sprightly elves had inserted halved ping-pong balls under his skin the night before. I think he was outside for only 5 mins or so.



The weekend wasn't all about bug bites and wizard houses though. We got some sun and exploring in.

Hot sun-mamas



We're on a boat



Naked love. We're not actually naked - it's all camera tricks.



Anna found a log to climb.

Hoisting Climbing Conquered


There was a delicious bass hanging out by the dock. We thought it was protecting its clutch of eggs or something (and by "something" I mean, protecting jewels or other fish-riches).



Tube-top-tacular



Look up. Look waaaaaaaaaaaaay up. The Friendly Giant is going to tell you how Diabetes works.

And then he'll play you a tune.