Woke to light showers around 5:00, but they stopped before we again woke at 6:00. Time for coffee-- darn, where are the filters? How did they not make the food pack?? OK, we have several bandannas with us—how would one work as a filter? Turns out Do-Rag coffee works so well it may become our standard coffee method.

Hash browns and bacon for breakfast, and watched as three beavers swam by our site. We broke camp and were on the water at 8:30. Our first portage, 420 meters, took us into the east arm of North Tea Lake. While the portage was steeper than either of yesterday's, footing was again great and we continue to be impressed with the level of portage maintenance. Around 10:00 a light rain began, but eventually the skies cleared. From North Tea we portaged 300 meters into Hornbeam, 50 meters into a no-name, then 140 meters into Biggar, our destination lake for the day. Again we were on our destination lake before lunch, something I don't like about the Algonquin reservation system. Biggar has lots of campsites, so we can be selective about the day's stop. We passed several so-so sites, then saw a long smooth rock tongue jutting into the water from a point—shades of Quetico! It's a beautiful site with a good cooking rock and benches, several nice tent pads, etc. We claimed it for the night and it's not even 1:30! I'm feeling like a slacker by not paddling more today. Our 2019 Quetico trip was our coldest/wettest and our clothing this year is based on the 2019 weather, but it's in the 70s today—hot and sunny! We set up a bathtub (contractor's trash bag that doubles as pack rain cover overnight), cleaned up, snacked, napped, played Farkle, read more McManus, etc. Dinner was a ham, mushroom, & spinach risotto, chocolate chip cheesecake for dessert. As we were cleaning up, a family came into a site across the bay from us. A little later we heard thunder, so secured the canoe, hung food, and moved into the tent. Hot, so we peeled back the fly until we heard rain approaching. When the rain and cool air arrived it became an impressive storm—lots of lightning and thunder with some four- and five-second intervals between the flash and the noise.