Saturday, July 16, 2011 I woke up ~6am and slept great. E woke up ~8am, slept well except for itching. Overcast, very calm wind and water and fogged in to start the day, although pretty warm and humid. Very eerie feel to the start of the day. Ate another breakfast skillet. Got onto water around 9:15am and canoed to west side of lake to explore and fish. Tried to teach E about navigation with a map and compass but he wasn’t very interested which was a bit frustrating to me. Skies cleared to partly cloudy and then mostly sunny and became more and more breezy from SSW as the afternoon went on but then died down in the evening. Temp started in mid-60s and got to low 80s. Didn't catch anything all morning. Ran into a couple of guys who looked like they knew what they were doing while fishing.  They said they’ve caught ~30 fish (walleye and northern pike) all over in about 10-15 feet of water with leeches. We went to north peninsula campsite to have lunch of beef jerky, mangos, cheese and crackers, trail mix. Very nice elevated campsite with awesome fire grate/great room with nice logs for seating overlooking water, room for 3-4 tents but not much shade and rocky canoe landing. Swam for about an hour to the surrounding islands. Lots of fun.  Water was very comfortable. E wanted to duel with sticks on the rocks on one of the islands. E was asking lots of questions about how far it was to our campsite, if we could swim to it and how long it would take and moss one the rocks. He also asked a lot of questions about swords and what they could or could not be made of. Seemed like the black flies came out that day since there weren’t very many before that but they were all over the place while and after swimming and for the rest of the trip. Then canoed directly south from peninsula campsite to western shore of southern part of main lake body. Just as getting across main body of lake saw 2 bald eagles perched high in a tree across main body of lake. As we got closer one of them took flight. Pretty cool.  Fished for about an hour but no action at all. Ethan wanted to nap so canoed back to campsite ~3:15pm. Got pretty windy. Laid in hammock and took a short nap while E napped in the tent until ~6:15pm. Swam off of our campsite for about 35 minutes. Then canoed around our island while E trolled w/ a Gulp leech on a jig. No action. Ate dinner of pad see ew which E liked very much. Was pretty warm in the tent all night. Almost full moon rising at ~10pm was really bright and very cool looking.