This was a miserable day. We woke up at 4am to rain. Spitting at first then it poured. We slept will 7 then with a break in the rain we packed up and got out the rain gear. It was pretty overcast out and didn't look like it was going to clear up. My stomach wasn't very happy either. By the time we got underway it was 9:30. It rained intermittently the whole day. We had weird sandy portages - your paddling through a sandbar and then next thing you know your beached but the lake continues on in front of you so you have to get out and pull it over the sandbar. There were two actual portages as well from small lakes. Ok they weren't small they were tiny. And because we were on the west side it was packed! The portages over these weren't that tough but my stomach still hadn't let up and I may have left some of my breakfast on the trail of the first one.
The lakes on the west side neither of us were impressed with. At one point we were slogging through reeds trying to paddle. It was terrible. Our rain gear did it's job however between the rain, getting in and our of the canoe (your feet were never dry or warm) and my upset stomach I caught a chill. By the time we made campsite 52 I made some soup and changed out of wet clothes and crawled into my sleeping bag to get warm. Or try to at least. We ended up sharing a site with the same dudes that we had camped with for most of the trip. Turns out they are childhood buddies from elementary school and pretty funny. After dinner we played a round of crib and shared a lemon loaf.
The goal is to get up super early to be able to see some moose on our last day!
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