Back to the Lodge (again)

If visions of relaxing on our new front porch and dining on prime rib seemed to good to be true it turns there was a good reason for it.  On the morning satellite phone check in with the lodge I'm told Dan is going to come try and get Buzz and I out and back to the lodge, Ron is going to stay behind and look after our boats.  We go down river to the landing zone and wait.  And wait.  Then we wait some more.

It's still very smoky and eventually we learn over the satellite phone that Dan had to put the plane down on a lake to wait it out.  Maybe we'll get to go back and eat prime rib?  Beavers engines have a very distinctive sound and eventually we hear one somewhere out in the smoke.  Dan has come to rescue us, I guess that's what he thinks he's doing anyway.

"Kind of smoky, huh?" I say to Dan, as I get in the co pilot seat.  "It'll be fine but we have to go to Rainbo camp get some fuel, and drop off a motor so we can wait it out there a little more, we might even spend the night", he says.  Sounds promising.

Rainbo Camp is located right on the coast, on an estuary visible to the right.  We'll land on the pond to the left and walk the outboard we brought across a floating plank walkway, everything comes and goes from this camp that way. 

Dan calls the lodge to tell them what we're doing.

The smoke has been a bit of a problem at Rainbo Camp the last few days too and we show Tim, the camp cook, some pictures of the fire from the air.

Kaiser is happy to see us too.

Guests spend the night at Rainbo so they have a much fancier kitchen and dining tent than we have on the Togiak.  Luckily we don't have to sleep the floor of it though.

The smoke lets up a little, the Beaver has been refueled, we take off and pass over Matty and Garrett on our way back to the lodge.