Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Day Three: We got up knowing that we would have to break camp for the first time, and we didn’t get the earliest of starts. But we had only seen a couple of groups paddle past us at our campsite, and only two groups on our first day on the way to Gillis so we figured it wouldn’t be too crowded where we were heading , and we were pretty much right. We headed for Gabimichigami, a lake that had some fire damage, but some campsites on the north end that we might want to check out. Besides Gabi, we also had to paddle across Peter, another burned lake, but noticed we had an easterly wind that kept us moving pretty well along. It was a much faster travel day then Sunday was with the highlight being a discovery of a moose skeleton along the portage between French and Peter. First we found the entire bone structure of a leg, then further along the trail we found the spine, and then someone had put the skull on a stump. Looks like some wolves may have surprised the moose as it was meandering along the path, possibly in the spring. Nothing really looked good on Gabi so we pressed on to Agamok. Here we were able to pull the knoos through the channel to avoid the portage and took the first campsite, the one on the south shore of the eastern end of the lake. It was a pretty shaded site, but you could see the north shore was pretty charred from the recent fires. After setting up camp and doing brats on tortillas for supper, the boys fished, and cut some hollow cedar logs to make a chimney fire with while Greg and Brian did a trip to check out the Agamok bridge along the Kekekabic Trail. Austin managed to catch a small pike when he really wasn’t trying according to his jealous brother, who was supposed to be the one catching all the fish. Even though it was mostly a travel day, and soggy at that, it was one that helped put the difficult start on Sunday behind us. And besides, the food packs are starting to get a little lighter to carry.