Wednesday, July 31 A pleasant morning and a leisurely breakfast as we discuss the days plans. We decide to spend another night here and day trip in the area. The day turns out beautiful, with a light west breeze and high, fair, cumulus clouds. This area of Cirrus is incredibly rocky, with entire slopes of bare rock coming down to the water. I can't help but think what a great sledding hill this would make in the winter! Fishing is fair by Quetico standards; but always enough for a fish dinner!
As the afternoon progresses the west wind starts picking up and the bottoms of some of the cumulus clouds are turning black. We realize how hard a westward paddle on this lake could be, and that is exactly what we need to do tomorrow to get closer to our exit point on Beaverhouse Lake. So we decide we will leave early tomorrow, without breakfast, and head west. We spend another pleasant evening around the fire place, reading out loud with our two teenage paddlers wind bound on giant Lake Winnipeg as they paddle towards Hudson Bay! We can certainly relate to that! Before dark thunderstorms start moving through the area, but we once again are spared the worst by being only on their edges with light showers.