Wednesday, July 05, 2006 Breakfast Oatmeal,cocoa Cleaned & packed up. Started to Wind Lake at 8:30. Ben was duffer navigator. We completely circled an island & headed in wrong direction. Group B was headed for the same portage. Decided to race, we finally got back on track & got in 1st. We portaged across. to Wind. There's a neat little shallow stream across the portage about half way. It was really refreshing. I managed to get a lure caught in a bush & didn't realize it for a while. The excess line got wrapped around my foot but I didn't want to stop in the middle of the portage since I was carrying a pack, the stove and the rods. It was a real mess by the end.
We stopped at the island site on Wind. Someone had tried to burn huge logs in the fire grate. We noticed this site and the previous site had a lot of less considerate occupants. It took a while to clean it up. We fished at a nearby island. No fish. The boys all had snacks & took a nap. Dinner Chicken & rice green beans. hot cocoa. Not bad There was a large sounding animal moving around in the brush behind the tent. Not sure what it was.