Chanterelles and Canned Salmon
August 23rd (Friday) Although it did get windy last night, we were anchored in a good spot and did not get anywhere near the full winds of the forecasted 40 knots. We all slept well. We had a relaxing rainy morning with the fire going, sorting pictures and reading. We had a delicious early lunch of caviar on toast. Yummy! After lunch we all hiked to the lake where Jason had been yesterday afternoon and had seen lots of mushrooms that he thought were Chanterelles. He had since done a lot of reading in our Audubon mushroom book, and we took it with us to accurately identify them. J and I spent a while looking at the many mushrooms and reading the book, and came to the confidant conclusion that one type of them were indeed Chanterelles. Yay. They were growing in the sand up at the edge of the bank under the deciduous trees and there were a whole bunch of them. We picked a good-sized bag and washed off the sand and dirt in...