On the water at 8:45, and just a few minutes later it began to rain. Paddled for an hour in very light rain, then an hour in moderate rain. Our first stop was a bluff-top campsite on Suzanette rumored to host a message cache. The site was beautiful and had a commanding view of the lake, but we didn't find a message jar. As we finished the portage into Brent, the sky turned blue and stayed that way the rest of the day. We pulled over for a snack/dry-off break on a small rock island, where I found a new-looking Swiss Army knife. Bright sun and light breeze had our gear and clothes dry in 30 minutes or so, and we continued to McIntyre. From McIntyre we took the 580 meter portage into a no-name lake on our way to Ted—the portage was steep in places, and at one point I thought we might need to set up a base camp! Following the long portage we had three short portages through a no-name chain into Ted. Note: short doesn't equal easy—some poor footing and overgrown trails, but the dry weather has eliminated the muck we often encounter on portages. We found a great campsite on a point with a nice view down the lake. Not much wildlife viewing today—mostly various birds. After a big dinner, we paddled down the lake to the pictograph site—faded, but always interesting to see and photograph. Back in our campsite, around 8:30 we heard quite a commotion from the direction of the portage from Hurn Lake, and a short time later (it's dark-thirty by now) we were joined by a father-son team, Darryl & Isaac, from the Chicago area. Not knowing of another site nearby, we shared our large site with them. Our tent was set up without the fly, and thousands of stars twinkled for us all night.