Minnesota Pictures
August 11-18, 2001

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WHITE EAGLE RESORT on LAKE VERMILLION in COOK, MN

Here it is - our little home away from home.

The cottage name is Raven and it's at White Eagle Resort which is located in Northern Minnesota near the town of Cook on Lake Vermillion.

This is the inside - just the living/dining room. There is a nice fire going in the fireplace!

Gee, can you tell this is two pictures pasted together ??
This is the view from our private dock. That's our lemon, I mean, boat docked there.

Dock View

These are the stairs leading up to the cabin from the dock.

Erin and Mom out on the kayaks.

A view of some of the lake (but just a little of it), it's HUGE.

Grandpa Jezl catches a Bass - the first decent fish of the trip.

John catches his first Northern Pike. For the record, it was 17" long. It may "grow" with each telling of the story.

Erin on the boat. Good action shot!

Elissa crusin' on the boat. FYI - she IS wearing her PFD (personal flotation device). It is under her regular jacket.

John takes a face full of water while driving the boat!!

This was a familiar sight during the trip, as things kept breaking down on the boat and John had to keep fixing them.

Depth finder shorted out
Blew an Oil Line
Trolling Motor broke (again...)
Cracked the oil reservoir cap

And those are just the things we know about.

John with the guide and his second Northern. This one was a little bigger (the fish, not the guide).

Grandpa Jezl with the guide and his first Northern. Strangely enough, they were out fishing for Muskellunge, not Northern Pike.

This is where we kept the kids when we went out fishing... Haha.

John scores a Walleye.

Erin Scores a Walleye

Vickie scores a Walleye

John scores another Walleye - Elissa got one too, but it flopped out of the boat before we could get the camera out. So, pretend this one is Elissa's. It was about the same anyway.

A flock of Merganzers on the lake.

Yes, Vickie was actually on the trip and this proves it.

Sunset 1

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A gorgeous sunset on the last day. Note the building cumulonimbus clouds on the horizon.

For the next few pictures, I provided a link to the 1600x1200 versions of these photos because I think they would make great wallpaper. Just bring up the photo, right click on it, and choose "set wallpaper".

Sunset 2