Now THAT's a FISH!!!  A fish like that is a lifechanger for a kid.
Prouboy, as one of those that sometimes rides herd on a group of up to 18 young people, I will say I can feel your pain on the noise etc.  I love solitude & often camp alone for that reason, but when you have 18 energetic young people out there ther will be more noise than I am comfortable with sometimes .  That's just the way it's goint to be.  Kids having fun will often be kids making noise.  We DO make sure their is a stack of firewood to last a couple of days when we leave, pick up all our trash & any other we can find, & with their permission we often help others with their gear on portages.  We always give smaller groups the right of way at any portage.
We have no electronics to create noise.  Just haven't figured out how to have a quiet game of capture the flag yet...

Paddle Guy,
I wouldn't be concerned that you could have taken your daughter sooner.  Maybe if she had gone a year or two earlier, she would not have been ready and it would have been an unpleasant experience for her.  Just be glad that you lucked out and took her at a time went she was ready for it.  Also, going to a place like Sylvania which is small and closer to home was probably a good choice.

Yellowbird wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2013 at 6:28pm:


Thanks, YB!  We're hoping to see your smiling face back in the Q or at Copia sometime before we're all too far over-the-hill (well, I suppose we could STILL go to Copia, then!).

Writing that story was a lot of fun.  My experience w/"Charlie" encourages me that even today's cyber-wired youth will embrace the wilderness if simply given exposure to it.  He gives me faith in future generations.  Speaking of which, my younger son (now 23) - the one who had little patience for fishing & hasn't been to the Q in many years - is absolutely demanding
that I take him along this year!  That's the best news I've had in a long while....

Jimbo