Because of the clouds that night the moon was blocked and I slept very well. We all woke later in the morning than on other days and we ate a late breakfast before piling into the canoe once again and continuing on our journey. The wind had died (finally) so I had to untie the sail and pack the tarp away. We were not too sad about that though since our journey this day was going to be very short (less than three miles).

We crossed the remaining part of South Arm Knife Lake quickly and came to the Eddy Lake portage. From my reading on the Seagull website I knew that there was a pretty cool waterfall that we could explore. We humped our packs and the canoe over the portage and placed everything off to the side before we grabbed our cameras and started climbing around on the rocks that make up Eddy Falls.

We spent perhaps an hour climbing down, and then up, the falls; taking many photographs along the way. In the falls Matt found a peculiar thing; a length of bamboo (presumably from a fishing pole) with a small “ullu” style knife blade attached to the end of it. Unsure of what to make of it we decided that it was a spoil of travel and we took it with us.

Eddy Lake proved to be glassy as we paddled across it. We made it a point to visit all of the campsites so I could continue my “toilet” pictures. We took our sweet time in exploring this area because we were so close to our destination (Jenny Lake). On the portage into Jenny Lake we actually decided that we were too close, so we unpacked our lunch (summer sausage, cheese and crackers) and ate it right there on the Jenny side of the portage.

Gopher decided that he was a little tired of seeing other canoes (we had encountered at least one group of people on every portage this trip and more than a few on the water) and he wanted to get away from any traffic. We looked at the map and discovered that there was a small portage that crossed into Colice Lake (no campsites) which in turn, crossed another portage into Barter Lake, which contained only one site. With hardly any hesitation we took it.

Once at the site on Barter Lake we discovered that the site was long overdue in any usage. Judging by the amount of overgrowth no campers had been to the site all year. We set about getting the camp up (there was only enough room to set up one tent) and took some time with our new found “ullu” stick to clear away some of the ferns and weeds that covering the site and trails to the toilet. After a few hours we got bored with our cleaning job, laid a tarp down by the fire grate and started a fire; which we stared into for the rest of the day.

Night fell and with it we decided to take an early bed time. The cloud cover once again kept us from watching the stars and the moon so we played poker for a while before turning in for the night.