Thursday, June 11, 2009

Thursday, day 5, we once again were on the move so we ate light (coffee and oatmeal)….We pulled out of Shell and back through the portage with the submerged planks.. Through Lower Pauness and into Upper Pauness… Where we set up our last camp on the point next the Little Indian Sioux entrance and not far from the 8 rd portage on the end of that lake…. It had a good grass landing for the canoe and after walking up a short path we set up overlooking the entire end of the lake….The only drawback was not a lot of “good “ wood for a fire…(a lot of dead and rotting pine)… but beautiful sunset.. That afternoon was spent fishing along the eastern shoreline and relaxing in the sun----YES SUN, and peeling off our now permenent long underwear. Also we enjoyed our camp pets, Chimpmunks.

Our last supper was great, shell macoroni and spam…and brought back memories of spam . After supper we paddled across the lake to fish the west side and had a light rain move across the lake like smoke. It didn’t last long and we barely got wet so we continued to fish, catching several nice smallmouth and a couple of small pike…and catching some good pictures of a spectacular rainbow. The sky also provided a really good last sunset and a fitting last evening for our 2009 trip…