Thursday, June 12, 2014
We awoke to rain in the middle of the night. We listened to the weather radio and the daily report called for scattered showers with some moderate winds coming up later in the afternoon. We waited for the sound of the light rain to stop before getting out of the tent at 8:30. Started a fire and cooked 2 batches of blueberry muffins in the reflector oven for breakfast. After cleaning up and getting everyone ready for the day we headed for Eddy Falls. The falls were running very high this year and it was cool to check them out while nobody else was there. We trolled for pike with no luck before cooking lunch at the western most site. Halfway through lunch the showers started but looked pretty harmless, little did we know what was coming. We packed up lunch and decided to head back to camp. The showers turned to a downpour while portaging back to Knife. We were halfway across the main body of the South Arm when out of nowhere the wind started blowing hard and blew us off our path twice. We took refuge on shore for a little bit before getting things reorganized and getting the boys situated before finding a different path to get back. We took a path that let us paddle directly into the wind and after a long, slow paddle we made it back to camp. We later found out a group of scouts were caught and had to be evacuated from the same storm. We got back to camp and changed into dry clothes and played games and read books from 3-6. It was still raining but we made a makeshift shelter to cook and eat supper under. I'm hoping Santa knows Dan at CCS and delivers a much needed tarp for X-mas this year. The chili and grilled cheese were great on what turned out to be a cool damp evening. The rain continued until 10 pm.