As predicted it was cold Friday night but we had appropriate gear and warmed ourselves with a fire during breakfast in the morning. Powdered coconut milk makes a great creamer, by the way.

We decided to stay at site 591 for a second night, have a chill morning, and explore Omega and the surroundings. The map indicated an unmaintained portage at the end of the north bay of Omega leading to a small, unnamed lake and then onto Finn lake. We were intrigued and paddled up to check it out. We found the unmaintained portage, stowed the canoe, and hiked to the unnamed lake, finding evidence of possibly a mountain lion. Some sort of large cat (four toes, no claw marks, probably 4 inches) seemed to be making the old portage a personal highway and there were many tracks in the muddy spots along with a few spots where it seems to have caught and eaten a bird (possibly grouse). There was also moose scat, but no sightings of either moose or mountain lion.

We lunched on the shores of the unnamed lake, hiked back to the canoe, and paddled around Omega to checkout the other sites. Site 592, which has great reviews on this site seems to have been loved a little too much. While it has room for multiple tents, it also has a distinct lack of undergrowth due to firewood gathering and many trees obviously cut down for firewood giving it a somewhat state park campsite sort of feel. I'm glad we ended up where we did for our two nights.

We saw nobody at all on Saturday and, after checking out a couple of the other campsites, I'm pretty sure we had the whole lake to ourselves and the loons. It was a bit warmer, which was nice for sleeping, and I spent some time in the middle of the night stargazing and admiring the Milky Way. A beautiful end to a relaxing day.