Friday, August 23, 2019 We were up by 7:00 am, started getting things together and ate breakfast, had a nice breeze and sunshine. We were able to put the tent and awnings on the rock to dry out, nice to have things dry, We were loaded and headed out by 10:00 am. There was a group of two canoes a head of us. They had put in on the same day as us. Then one other group of three guys seemed to be in a hurry, we let them go ahead of us. We did the paddle just fine today. Hated to leave the sunshine & warm weather. There were a lot of canoes headed in. We couldn’t believe the one group had no manners, they wanted to be on the portage and get their stuff in front of others. We gave them room. We were back to the put in by 12:30. We found our vehicle and loaded up. Headed back to Ely, stopped at Voyager to take showers, $10.00 for both. Very nice facility with a bathroom & shower together in individual room, two shower stalls also. We ate at DQ , had cheeseburgers! Yummy so good. We got out our cells to let family know we were out of BWCA and okay. It was 4:00 p.m. Dan decided to see how far he could drive, and we pulled into our driveway in Lincoln Nebraska at 2:30 a.m.

There is never a bad place to go in the Boundary waters, that is for sure, but we both felt like we enjoyed our past East areas more. There seemed to be so many people coming and going on this trip. I felt like the paddling in the Little Indian Sioux River was very hard with the tall rice grass. Thankful there was enough water there to paddle, but really had to reach out and paddle hard to get thru that area.