We woke this morning to beautiful sunshine. We made our coffee/tea and ate breakfast. It didn't take much time for us to pack up camp and hit the water. We were headed for the Moosecamp River. It was a scenic paddle. The flies were a little annoying, but the scenery certainly made up for it. There were two beaver constructions that we had to lift over. The first was quite easy. The last was a little more challenging because of the drop from the logs to the water. About halfway down the river, a duck joined us. He quacked noisily and stayed with us until we got to Fourtown. It was fun having a little duck leader. He would keep turning around and quacking at us, as if saying, "keep going this way."

We arrived on Fourtown, and found that it was quite windy. We pulled over at the first rocky shore, and took a short stretching break. We decided that we shouldn't stick around too long, because the wind was really starting to pick up. We were paddling toward Horse Lake and decided to find a campsite on Fourtown since it was getting difficult to paddle. We found an open campsite (#1100) and decided to stop for the day. It wasn't even noon yet, and we hadn't portaged at all.

We had lunch and then put up the tent and the hammocks. Today is when we started having problems with the gravity water filter. The same thing happened last year after about 4 days. We cleaned the screen and tried again, but for the rest of the trip, it was very slow running. It seems like a filter should last longer than four days. Hmmm. I've been reading on this site about people using a coffee filter to prefilter. Maybe we need to try that next trip.

We spent the afternoon reading and relaxing. It continued to be very windy, and by the end of the afternoon, we all had windburned cheeks.

For dinner, we had cache lake macaroni and cheese. I'm not usually a mac and cheese fan, but it was delicious! (even Dixie the dog liked it, and she doesn't like any of the food we eat on trail except beef jerkey) Dessert was frosted animal crackers. After dinner we finished reading Bridge to Teribithia. It's a tear jerker near the end of the book, and we had to take turns reading just to get through one chapter.

I guess we're a bunch of old softies. :-)