Saturday, August 02, 2025 Lots of birds in camp this morning....nuthatches, chickadees, magnolia warbler, brown creeper, hummingbird, robin, and black backed woodpecker. We had a lazy morning, coffee and pancakes and sat around watching the birds. Still kinda smoky. We're heating up the solar shower again. After breakfast, we paddled over to check out the eastern campsite. It's very beautiful with many tall pines and interesting logging or hunting camp relics. We'd been planning to spend some time there, and Jesse had thought of trying to bushwhack to Tick Lake...looks like it's about 1/2 mile east of the campsite. Sadly, a stiff wind out of the west has blown every deerfly on the lake right into that campsite...so we took some pictures and checked out the south shore of the lake, then headed back home.

Had showers and put on "clean" clothes. We've seen no one since leaving Gun. There's a nest of robins in camp, still not fledged. Seems awfully late in the season. Also lots of cool mushrooms and a young red squirrel with zero fear that started eating a mushroom while I was taking mushroom pictures. Sat up until dusk with the fire, then off to bed. Some medium sized animal was snuffling around outside the tent as we were falling asleep....Jesse was alarmed! Then the trumpeter swans did their thing right offshore.....so loud. Finally they went across the lake for the rest of band practice and we fell asleep. ~Moosecamp Lake