Hello and welcome to another episode of The Gray NATO, a Hodincky podcast. It's a loose discussion of travel diving driving gear and most certainly

watches. This is episode 117 and we thank you for listening. Jason how you doing keeping

cool? Yeah you know we go to this weekly episodes are

our episode count just goes up faster doesn't it one seventeen it sure does yeah i mean we

took last week off happily and you you had a you had a kind of like a cabin getaway during

that time off how is that yeah yeah it was much much, much needed.

We went up last week for, I think, four days

and rented a cabin way up on what's called the Gunflint

trail, which is what used to be an old, I suppose, logging

or backcountry dirt road that went up close to the border

with your country.

And there's just a lot of lakes.

It's up in the boundary waters, canoe area, wilderness, and there's kind of a lot of cabins on lakes, and so we rented a place at a private dock, and just a kind of a normal,

you know, no frills cabin probably built in the 30s or 40s and had a pot belly

stove which we didn't didn't need to use obviously but we just spent a lot of time

on the dock we read books on the dock. We read books on the dock. We took naps on the dock.

We had evening gin and tonics on the dock. I finished a novel and then every day I went for a swim.

I had my dive mask and some swim fins and I just

you know jumped off and the water was really really clear I mean it was nice up

there I think their their ice out date is sometime in late May, you know, so the vegetation

doesn't grow probably till late summer.

And so it's a lot of kind of underwater boulders.

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