Anyone who has been reading my mother-in-laws blog will already know the story of the pesky little squirrel who now goes by the name of Mr Fudgey.

For those of you who haven’t read Jackie’s blog let me give you a little recap. Mr Fudgey (so named due to his coloring, and also due to a popular brand of biscuits)…

Mr. Fudgey

…first appeared in the bird box in my in-laws garden back in February. We initially found him quite amusing until he successfully destroyed several bird feeders and refused to move along. It’s now May and he is still there.

As time has moved on this little guy has got braver and braver. It doesn’t matter how much we chase him, he just sits and looks at us as much to say ‘what you going to do?’. Cameron manged to get these photos the other day without Mr. Fudgey even twitching. In fact I think he quite likes his new career as a model!

Mr Fudgey, ready for food...

Lunch!

Luckily for this little red squirrel, Cameron, has taken quite a liking to him and the good news is that he only costs us a few packets of sunflower seeds every couple of weeks. I’ve got a feeling he isn’t going anywhere in a hurry…

Supper!

MISSION TWO – EXPLORE MOLEGA LAKE

OverView

Molega lake is a 30km long lake situated not too far from Chelsea, Nova Scotia. We headed off in search of one of the islands, soon discovered we weren’t quite as fit as we’d thought and instead headed under a little bridge into Beaver Tail Basin.

A few kilometers up the lake we came across a lovely sandy beach…

Picnic spot

and stopped for our sandwiches…

Cam

Post sandwiches, we jumped back into the canoe and started heading back the way we came. Unfortunately we’d tied our dry sac to the middle bar in the canoe and weren’t able to reach our camera to capture some of the magnificent sites en route. One of the most impressive was a GIANT spider floating on the surface of the water. It was holding tension with it’s legs. It obviously thought we were land as it picked up pace whenever we went near.