Wednesday, September 26, 2012 Blueberry pancakes and sunshine was on tap for the morning. We decided to move camp today. It sounded like a good idea at the time. We ate pancakes and broke down camp and packed the canoe and headed west. We traveled back to Lower Pauness Lake via the Beaver portage again. We met the guys that were staying on the south side of Con Island. It was a guide and a gentleman from North Carolina. They were watching a mama moose and her baby moose at the beaver dam in the middle of the portage. Not only did we see a bull moose on Echo Trail, we now get to see a mom and her baby!!! We are starting to think our 13 year old is a lucky animal charm. :-) We stood and watch the mama moose for about 30-40 minutes. She could care less we were there. We finally moved on and finished the portage only for our lucky charm to find a box turtle! After the advice from the guide, we looked to see if the site south of the portage was open, it was not :-), then we check the one on the point just north of the portage and it was not either. We decided to spy the last one on the lake and it was open, but we chose to check out Upper Pauness for some open sites he recommended. So we shot over the 40 rod portage and canoed north to check out the top three sites. They were full, also, so we headed south. We checked out the two southern sites and decided to try and go back the open site on Lower Pauness. We headed over the 8 rod portage at the south end. It was an up and over and not very bad at all. We were a bit surprised to run into a beaver dam on the other side, thou. Luckily the north site was still open, which was good, it was turning into a long day. We quickly sat up the tent and started supper and settled in for the night. Our lucky charm finally saw her beavers!!! Oh boy did she! Our entertainment was set for the evening, watching beavers heading to work and watching the full moon rise. We also found this spike and chain link in the rock right in the camp site.