I woke up at 4:15 and the moon was perfect over the tent - shining off the canoe and shining off the lake with ripples in the water. I wanted to take a picture but I didn’t know where the camera was, and I knew it wouldn’t have turned out anyway. The alarm went off at 7 per usual. There were a couple of raindrops on the tent a short time later. We were out of the tent around 8 and had Mountain House biscuits and gravy for breakfast and also a half beef stick and cheese. It seemed to ever so slowly increase to a lite rain over the course of about two hours. That put us back in the tent around 9:30-10ish. 

Claire’s allergies/eyes were bad. My throat even started hurting a little bit. The rain finally stopped at 11:30. It was very calm and still rather cool, but slowly warming up. The twosome that was staying on the far north site left after the rain around 12:30. We only saw maybe one other group before that and that was all we saw that day. We had debated about heading to Moosecamp but we didn’t really want to pack up in the rain, and by the time the rain stopped we were content with just staying put on our fantastic site. If we had decided to leave after the rain we wouldn’t have been out of there until 1. 

We sat out on the rock for hours after the sun came out. It was quite warm. Claire finished her book, I read the map and a bunch more of my own book. I fished with a frog and a rap for a bit. I had a jig and a leech out the rest of the time (3-4 hours?) without even a bite. We finally needed food around 6. The Good to Go curry was amazing. It even had a nice little kick and we decided it was a yearly staple. 

An otter swam by and hung out for a bit finding food. The bugs started to get worse. The flies (deer, horse, etc) were buzzing ALL day and finally stopped, but the mosquitos then decided to come out. A snowshoe hare showed up in camp right after Claire got in the tent around 9-9:15. It wasn’t scared at all, and was only about 10 ft from me. It was the most gorgeous night.

~Gun Lake