Day four - Monday - July 4th - Up early for Bacon and Eggs with Coffee and flat bread. Today we spent the morning fishing, I didn't say catching, we beat the water to a froth but didn't catch anything. Spent some time putting up a fly and making the camp a little better. weather was a bit chilly and breezy, so the water had a bit of chop to it - not really whitecaps, but getting close. After lunch, PB&J on flatbread with candy bars. Joe, Jim and Cameron decided to scout the campsites we wanted to move to. It didn't take as long as we thought it would when they hit us on the radio that they had the site (#628) and we were moving! By the time they got back Mike had his gear packed, the food pack ready to go and was heading to the new site in the solo to start setting things up. I had the bear bag ropes down, packed and ready to go, finished getting the tents and other gear ready for the trip so it actually went pretty quick to get things ready to move out. We made the paddle back down the lake and found the new site had three landings, one was a little rocky, the second was small but sandy and the third was the biggest however it was the rockiest and least desirable. This site has a stairway built into the main landing, very nice site with multiple pads, no problem for three tents and a hammock, this site has to be one of the best on Gaskin for a larger group. In the afternoon we started to see a lot more clouds and figured we were going to see some weather move in. we had everything setup and now we were ready to cook dinner, Brats, Hot Dogs, fried onions and peppers on flat bread with Frito's and banana nut muffins baked in a camp made foil reflector oven - "Boundary Waters Good" eats! Did a little fishing and messing around before it got late and we hit the bags for what looked to be a windy night. It got windy, at first I thought an evacuation helicopter was coming into the area - I kept hearing rotor blades in the distance, as the wind got stronger it sounded closer. Only to hear Mike yell over to me that it was my tent's rain-fly making the noise. I have years of camping experience in lots of bad weather and I don't think I have ever been in that much sustained wind for so long, it was amazing! Of course Justin slept right through it all, the wind, noise, lightening and thunder. (the next day Joe and I found out we had the same thought - It's July 4th, are we going to be in the next Blow Down?) turns out everything was ok - we had secured the canoes and most of the gear, we did have to track down items that we had left on the drying line the night before. That will be a memory that won't go away for those of us that were awake!