Saturday, July 01, 2006 1:00am: Heard G come out of the tent & start throwing up. He threw up a while & went back in the tent. A little while later we hear: Mr F. I had diarrhea & threw up all over myself, all my clothes are messed up, I have no water & I think there's a bear out there. Dan found more water, gave him toilet paper to clean up the tent, I gave him more immodium. He went down to the latrine, fought a resident spider on the seat, then went back to the tent & settled down.
2:00am The wind started coming up & it started to thunder. Dan & I remembered the canoes weren't tied down so we go down to the beach & start moving the canoes, I pull Dan across a couple of big rocks & get yelled at. We tie down the canoes & weight down the tarp over the gear packs. It started to rain & lightining was everywhere. Gusts of wind were shaking the tent. It really poured for about 2 hours. One final huge gust of wind pushed up the side of the tent & we held it down. Soon after the storm passed. I remember, oh yeah, its my birthday.
We got up late the next morning with a strong wind coming straight across the cove into our site. The canoes had flipped back over. We are glad we secured them & vow to the rest of the trip. The waves are hitting the beach pretty hard. We decided to give the wind some time to die down & Gavin to recuperate. We appropriate G's camelback water dispenser and have everyone start using it as a hand washing station by tying it to a tree along the latrine trail at each campsite w/biodegradable soap and mixing iodine tabs in the water. I wish we'd done it earlier.
We look at the map & see the route was mostly due south & the wind was coming from the north. Dan & I take a canoe over to the point see the water around the point is pretty calm. We left about 3:30 with G as duffer. It was a pretty tough paddle to the point. As soon as we rounded the corner, the water smoothed out & the wind was pushing us from behind. We paddled through more of Crooked Lake, past Friday, Thursday & Wednesday bay. There was a shortcut around an island with what looked like water to get from Thursday to Wednesday bay on the map. We couldn't see it when we got to the back of the cove. We looked back to see large waves and wind we would have to fight to get back to the main channel. We kept looking & saw water on the other side of some rocks There was a small opening with water flowing over the rocks about a canoe wide. We got out & carried over to the smooth water on the other side. It was a pretty area.
We found a campsite about 7:30 & set up camp. G only wanted gatorade & Tylenol for dinner. He did a great job navigating. We had chicken & rice & green beans & Apple brown betty. Apples are getting old.