Thursday, June 26, 2014 - This was a perfect tripping day. Sunny and warm, enough breeze to hold down the bugs a bit, and a short easy morning. We ate breakfast on the water again, made good time through all the muddy wet portages, and even survived the long portage into Beth. Though, I was very glad to have my son bridge me, and took more breaks than I should have. Man, that canoe is really too heavy for me. Having invested $400 in getting it repaired I feel like I'm stuck with it now. It's kevlar, but I think they were using it for strength back then, not lightness. We found a lovely site on Beth, with a fire pit right down by the water, tent pads high up and breezy in the pine trees, and a path to a peninsula for watching the sunset. We had our hot meal - mac and cheese - when we got to camp and had everything set-up, our dishes washed, and our hammocks hung by noon. Wet clothes hanging in the sun, sleeping bags in the hammocks, and we took turns napping with the puppy for several hours. At one point my son said we should have dinner and think about bed, so my daughter checked the time and it was 3. We attempted to swim, but it was too cold. At around 5 we packed up the hammocks, made our beds, cleaned up camp and took the food pack into the canoe to explore the lake and eat dinner on the water.  My son and I enjoyed lazing in the bottom of the canoe with the puppy while my daughter turned around in her seat and soloed us around the lake. When we got back to camp they got in the tent to read and I went to the peninsula to watch the sun-set. I saw a fish ambushing dragonflies, it must have leapt up and eaten 15-20 while I watched.  Then a beaver swam up and nibbled some twigs. The sunset was lovely. However the bugs were fierce and I finally gave up and went back to the tent. I read until it actually got full dark this night! So late! It must have been 9:30 by the time I fell asleep! It was really windy all night, I was worried we would get stuck on the lake. In the middle of the night the puppy woke me, shivering and miserable, so I pulled him inside my sleeping bag and got to listen to him snore the rest of the night.  So cute!