Lake Agnes – Oyster River – Oyster Lake – Rocky Lake – Green Lake – Ge-be-on-e- quet Lake Paddled 8 miles – Portaged 490 rods (double portaged at all portages)

This non-morning person who is camping with two morning people was once again up at 4:45 am and preparing for the day. It looks like we may see rain today but the waters are calm. We packed up, grabbed our breakfast bars and headed for our first portage of the day; 160 rods to Oyster River at 6:00 am. We have given in to the fact that we have to double portage.

This portage offered a little of everything; two large trees to go over, two small streams to cross, a little mud, and a bog at the end requiring teamwork to get to the water. This was my last trip with the canoe as Tauna took over after this as the canoe and I were just not getting along this year.

The paddle on Oyster River was pretty and peaceful. But no moose again today. Only a few rods before the 60 rod portage there is a very well constructed beaver dam that requires a lift over (or you may have two canoes by the time you make it to the other site at this time of year).

The rapids at the portage landing come right next to the very rocky landing. The portage itself is nice once you get out of the water.

Oyster Lake is pretty, yet very deceiving. Even with three of us, we still did some extra wandering to get to the narrows (maybe it has something to do with the time of day???) The narrows itself is very pretty. Not sure if we are just tired today or what but even finding the 65 rod portage was a challenge.

The portage went smooth and we were greeted by Rocky Lake. Definitely a lake worth visiting. We grabbed a snack and went in search of the pictographs. They were very easy to find. From the portage they are on the rock cliff directly in front of you. There is a rock island peninsula just after them. We continued our journey along Rocky and enjoyed the view.

The 85 rod portage to Green Lake had a little terrain but the trail was good. I stayed with the canoe and gear while Tauna and Carolyn went back for the rest of our gear. While sitting in the water cooling off, I noticed a craw fish big enough for dinner! I left him there though. At this portage we also met up with a crew we had seen the day before. They were a family of four who were also enjoying the abundance of mosquitoes on their trip.

We loaded up and had a paddling lunch on Green Lake to get away from the mosquitoes. Our final portage of the day was a 120 rod into Ge-be-on-e-quet Lake. We had been a little concerned about this portage based on forum posts but discovered our concern was for nothing. The trail started out nice and gradually went up hill, then flattened out and finally went back down to a nice landing area. I’m not sure where I saw the post about the 20 rod step drop but is does not exist if anyone else has seen it.

We quickly loaded the canoe to escape the bugs and began scouting for our site. The ones I had hoped for were already taken (of course the “chair” site was taken) so we checked out the next site to the north on the west side of the lake and called it home for two nights. We reached camp about 2 pm and took just about the last site on the lake. After setting up camp we decided we needed to swim if there was any way to handle the smell in that tent tonight! Polar Bear Plunge here we come! Brrrr that water was cold!

Today we had sun, periodic sprinkles, way more mosquitoes than we wanted, and the new addition of deer flies. That goodness for bug nets, gloves and good bug spray! By late afternoon our sunshine had turned to rain and we retreated to the tent for a while.

This site had a ton to offer. Great places for several hammocks, tons of room to explore, great rock slabs for laying around and oh my, animal remains! We found lots of bones on this trip. And of course… mosquitoes. There is a lower marshy area to the south side of this site which does not show on the map but I’m sure contributes to the bug factor. I would not let is keep you away from this site though!

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