A trip to Sunny's Grand Isle

I can finally log a find on Sunny's Grand Isle!

After getting close a few weeks back (I'd tried Reeds Lake and found Beaver Island but decided I was too tired to try this one, too) and also trying to set up a trip here after Age of Discovery (the weather was very uncooperative) I finally convinced Muggle Hubby (Steve) and Tall Son (Eric) to go out with the kayaks on Sunday. They weren't thrilled that a cache was involved but I pointed out that it was five minutes out of a nice afternoon of paddling.

The geo-kayak was still in the cachemobile. MH and TS loaded up the two-seater kayak in the carrier on the top of the cachemobile, and off we went. Arrived at the boat launch and got everything off-loaded. TS really wanted to try out Mom's kayak. Knowing that the first half of the trip was upstream, I generously offered to let him go first. I rode with MH in the two-seater, had a much easier paddle than if I'd been on my own. Our trip up to the island was a nice one, probably 45 minutes but we weren't looking at our watches.

Got to the island, found a nice little sandy beach area to disembark at, and I got out to go get the cache, less than 100 feet away. That took just a few minutes of tiptoeing through the poison ivy, wrestling with a less-than-cooperative ammo can, then signing the log and leaving one of my signature cards. Put everything back in its place, and turned around. No kayaks.

Steve and Eric thought it would be funny to paddle around to the back side of the island and make me think I'd been stranded. I figured out their plan pretty quickly and decided to just go back to the beach area to wait for them. Only trouble was, I slipped in some mucky sand on the way back, and got that mucky sand all over my legs and shorts. Took advantage of the waiting time to clean up as best as I could. Sure enough, they soon tired of their little game and came paddling back to get me.

I decided that I wanted to take the geo-kayak back to the boat landing, so switched places with Eric. That was probably a mistake. One little me versus two strong guys. Not a good plan. They would paddle furiously for a few minutes, get way ahead, then just sit and wait for me to catch up. After a few turns of this new game, they decided they weren't quite being fair and paddled with me the rest of the way.

A great day for a paddle, and glad to finally get my 2009th cache. Found it in the year 2009, too - that's pretty neat.