Hard rain and thunder last night, but woke to clear blue skies. We had breakfast and packed up, headed towards Horse on our slow tour of the area. Voyageur Map doesn't show the first 2 portages in the chain that leads to Horse. The Horse end of the 2nd one is a minor boulder field, and the Horse end of the 15 rod (3rd) portage is choked with lush green poison ivy. Managed to find some rocks along the shore to put our packs on while we went back for the canoe and Darrell the barrel. On our 2nd trip through the final portage, we ran into a group of guys that just looked at us blankly when I mentioned it...boy howdy, hope they aren't allergic to the stuff!

Once on Horse, we headed north. First site on the west shore looked awful, we didn't even get out...small and sad, full sun. Second one on the east was taken, and the 3rd one heading N also looked taken, but the folks there hailed us and said they had just stopped to put out a campfire that the previous group had left burning. It's huge and beautiful, open and shady with tall pines and rocky points....my favorite kind.

There is some sort of anchor (maybe) driven into the rock at 3 places with a chain attached to one of them. Found 2 very nice tent stakes. Our tent is back in the shade, tarp is set up under the cedars about 15 feet from the water, amidst mossy boulders. The firegrate has a huge built up fireplace with many carefully constructed tables in it.

Went swimming again- 3 days in a row! Watched a big threatening storm with lots of thunder and lightning pass slowly to the west of us. We have fairly close neighbors...I swear it smells like they made popcorn. I'm craving a burger and a big salad. Instead we had stroganoff and watched a lovely sunset. ~Fourtown Lake, Horse Lake