God's Lake for the Voyageur Hudson Bay Bound Boys July 22nd

     The Voyageur Hudson Bay Expedition Crew is still enjoying each other's company. They are all getting along well and having a wonderful experience. The days of paddling have been passing quickly and soon their journey will be over.
     Their equipment has worked wonderfully including canoes by Wenonah, packs by Granite Gear, and beautiful paddles created especially for their expedition by Peter Jansen.  Numerous people supported them before their trip and have been helping them throughout it. Generous donations have been made and hopefully more will be made. What an awesome opportunity they have been given.
     It's such an awesome expedition we have others wanting to do the same trip. Uh, oh, what have we started?

From the book Distant Fires...

Staring at the fiery glow over our heads, it was clear to us why the people of this lake had named it the Gods.

Sevareid had called it God's Lake, the apostrophe making the name all the more appropriate. For if God were to call one county His own, surely the magnificence of this inland sea would be it.

We spent just two nights on God's Lake and were twice rewarded with a show of Northern Lights that riveled anything we had ever seen. For these were Northern Lights as seen in the Far North. They came from all directions and in all colors. To the south we saw yellow and blue shimmerings as they swept up and met the gold straight overhead.

We slept outside on these nights and would wake up in the middle of the night and lie there enchanted. For a time we discussed the lights as a phenomenon of nature, but in the cool air and gentle breeze of the north, we knew that it took more than talks of ions and magnetic fields to describe what we saw. The native people of that land, knowing nothing of our science, had offered a better explaination. Is was, after all, God's Lake.