Layover day. Another big T-storm moved in early this morning. Stew got up to relieve his bladder at 4am and could see lightning on the horizon. By 5am, it was going full tilt with heavy rain and major lightning. I hope it didn't start any more fires.

It is so dry up here that it looks like September. The trees and plants are turning color and loosing their leaves. Sun exposed areas are wilted or dead (asters, blueberries, sumac, etc.). The blueberry crop is horrible. Even if the plant is still alive, the berries are miniscule. Stew tasted one yesterday and it had no flavor due to no flesh inside. No moisture = no sugars. The bits of rain we've had this trip are a fraction of what is needed and it's too late to help the berries this season. However, the weather does seem to be shifting back to a more normal pattern for the time being which is better than nothing.

Lazy morning. We finished our eggs and hash browns around 10 and then climbed back into the tent. The sun came out but the wind is blowing hard.

Lunch at 1:30. Wind still blowing. Naps, reading, and convinced Stew to play some rummy.

Dinner around 5:30. Still blowing but there were fewer whitecaps so we circumnavigated the island for about an hour of fishing. No bites, but we had a very friendly loon paddle up to us. It spent a long time just watching and studying us. Saw an eagle's nest. Then a big eagle swooped overhead and perched in a dead tree. A beaver was out for a swim before it returned to its big lodge nearby. We watched the sunset. It looked like a Florida sunset, big orange ball that dropped quickly past the horizon.

~Little Saganaga Lake