Mudro, Beartrap River, Horse lake loop
by bobbwca
We decide since we still have a long way to go, and not sure what the weather is going to be like over the next few days, to head out for our next destination. We are packed and on our way by 9 am. Another late start, but thats ok. We are more carefull going up the current to the portage by Curtain Falls after seeing that canoe flip yesterday, and being fully loaded again. That didnt look like to much fun! We do the portage over the falls and head for Sunday Bay. We paddle, and paddle, and paddle for most of the day, past Saturday Bay, then Friday Bay. I think my daughter is taking the scraped elbow thing a little too far since she's been sleeping off and on all day in the middle of the canoe! We stop on the Canadian side for lunch, at the car narrow's. This is my second time trying to find this place, missed it last year, but the story goes there is an old 1929 ford car someone drove out here 80 or so years ago that broke down, but we were unable to find it once again. I even tried to walk around the island to find it, but the woods were to thick, as were the tics, so I gave up and went back to eat. We still have to cross Friday Bay and Thursday Bay, and now the wind has started blowing. This part of the trip has been what i've been worrying about since getting caught out here two other times in high winds. We make it across both, but two to three foot waves, I really dont care much about paddling in them! We are getting tired after traveling all day and have yet to see an open campsite since we left the portage from Curtain Falls. After crossing Thursday Bay, and what we could see of the campsites there all being filled, the next two we get to our also filled. We make it another mile, and are hoping this one campsite I was told about wouldnt be occupied, I'ts down a narrows, and wasn't on the maps until just a few years ago, we were lucky and found it empty after a long day of paddling. We set up camp, ate some dinner, then the kids went for wood, so I fished and caught another small Northern. Once the wind died down, even tho it's a great campsite the mosquitos got angry with us. Once we had the fire going it got a little better, so we played cards again, then called it a nite.