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Welcome to my weekly update for July 12, 2026!
My husband had a four-day weekend for Independence Day so we drove up to International Falls, Minnesota and visited Voyageurs National Park. It’s our 57th national park out of a total of 63! We did a little hiking but this is a park that really needs to be experienced on the water so we took a couple of boat tours. We didn’t see as much wildlife as we hoped but we did see a lot of bald eagles. The lakes and islands that the park is centered around are beautiful.
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All images © Jennifer G. at Introverted Reader 2026
- My husband is very proud of this picture of a bald eagle! It had been feeding on a rock but finally decided it was tired of this boat full of people staring at it and took off. For those who don’t know, the bald eagle is the national bird of the United States.
- We saw this white-tailed deer and her twin fawns (only one pictured here) as we drove through town. They’re so beautiful! They were just munching away in the yard of a church.
- We loved the colorful boats docked at Thunderbird Resort. We didn’t stay there but we did eat there. The wild rice soup was amazing! Wild rice is harvested from the lakes in the area.
- Rainy Lake scenery. Voyageurs is mostly centered around Rainy Lake, Kabetogama Lake, and Crane Lake.
Posted:
Nothing.
Read:
Link goes to my review on GoodReads
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2) by Matt Dinniman–4 Stars
Currently Reading:
The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry #1) by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy #1) by Chelsea Abdullah
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins, read by Hillary Huber
What did your week look like?
Hosts:
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz hosts The Sunday Salon and Kimberly at Caffeinated Book Reviewer hosts Sunday Post. Kathryn at Book Date hosts It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
