Sunday, July 09, 2023 We sleep in a bit this morning, and wake up and eat breakfast. Since we aren't breaking camp and moving today, we decide to have pancakes for breakfast. Today has a pretty relaxed feel, which I like. Joel and Levi talk about missing home today. Dad's hands are hurting today. He's never had any trouble in the past, but this year his hands give him some fits. Dad doesn't know how to take it easy, so I'll have to put him in the middle seat of one of the MN3's so he can give his hands a break for much of the rest of this trip. Time for Levi to step up and be a strong paddler! After hanging around camp most of the morning, swimming, relaxing, and talking, we make some potato soup for lunch. Since it's a warm sunny day, Levi, Angelina, and Dakota decide to swim across the little bay on the island, and climb up the rocks on the other side for a photo shoot. After lunch, Joel, Christopher and I go fishing most of the afternoon. We catch 2 northern pike, and 2 small mouth bass. The winds changed directions very abruptly while we were fishing in bay in the southeast corner of Snow Bay. The wind almost pushed us west out of the bay! Then the rain came, and we heard thunder north of us most of the afternoon. It didn't storm where we were, but it sounded pretty rowdy to the north of us. At camp it would rain for a few minutes, then sun, then rain for a few minutes again, off and on for most of the afternoon. For some reason, everyone goes to sleep pretty early tonight. I think I'm the last one awake, and it's still daylight. We're all alseep so early, we didn't even make dinner... We did have a little squirrel visit camp.