Thursday, June 26, 2008 Everyone wanted to see sunrise this morning so I woke everyone up at 4:45 am and we all got some good pictures before we had a breakfast of blueberry pancakes with butter, honey, and strawberry jam. We pack camp up and are ready to leave for Oyster by 8:00. We paddle to the portage to green and cross it noticing that there are 3 piles of fresh wolf scat on the trail that morning… and it had to be wolf because we had been up since daylight and we were the first people over the portage. Yet we had heard no howling during the night, only loons… We pass uneventfully through Green and Rocky, stopping on Rocky to see if we can find the picto’s that are supposed to be there, but we never found them.

Once on Oyster we find the first site with water access on both sides is taken by the Boy Scouts we have been following, so we head to the next site on the peninsula. It is taken but they are leaving, so we wait until they leave and take the spot! It is a very nice spot with plenty of tent pads and trees to hang hammocks. However, it is easy to see that the two young boys in the group before us had plenty of free time and a hatchet to do damage with. Every tree in camp almost had marks on them, and green limbs were cut down and piled back in the woods! We set up camp and have lunch, peanut butter and honey sandwiches on flatbread. And for some reason everyone gets sleepy and heads to a hammock or tent for the next two hours… except for Heath who rested a little, he was fishing from shore. The fishing however was not very good from camp. We decide to have an early dinner so we could fish if we wanted to. So I prepared Barilla 3 cheese tortelloni with bertolli pasta sauce in a pouch with grilled garlic parmesan pitas. It too was a hit with everyone! Heath and I took the canoe out after dinner and managed to catch few smallies on top water although there was tons of baitfish or fish fry in the water. I managed to catch a nice northern who did not bite me off for a change. When we get back to camp at 8:30 the other guys are in bed and asleep so we clean up and get ready for bed as well.