6am Alarm and got up right about then. Couldn't wait to get coffee going. The nights have been pretty cold and that hot coffee in the morning is even more appealing. Whats even better is, the coffee our outfitter supplied was awesome! And we are both coffee snobs. We brought our own Peets, but opted to leave it behind after tasting the outfitters blend. As I got coffee going I had to admire the light mist on the water and the morning sun breaking through. This was one of those moments that I realized the pictures were never going to tell the story like we saw it. But we took many photos anyways, mostly to remind ourselves of the adventure we had and not so much to convince others of the beauty we experienced.

Breakfast today would be oatmeal. Carly scavenged around for berries and found very few. This obviously is a popular campsite, so anything nearby was pretty picked over.

Since we decided to layover here and enjoy the beauty, we got to do some exploring. Carly had been wanting to swim, so she took an early dive into the water, which was very cold, but she enjoyed it. I did not similarly appreciate the slightly frigid glacial water, but ultimately later in the day partook of one dive into the lake.

After the swim we wanted to explore the area around camp and gather fire wood for the night. We hiked for a couple of hours and got to the really high point between two of the bays. We never quite got to the other side to see the water, but we saw some amazing foliage, downed trees, cliffs, bugs. Hordes of red ants living in the rocks. I got to get very up close and personal with a golden dragonfly! I had the camera practically touching him and he was just posing. Macro lens worked great!

After hiking and cutting wood for the night we decided to jump in the canoe and paddle around the lower falls area. Carly wanted to go back to the portage to do some falls photography and exploring so we paddled across the lake to the portage and pulled the canoe out. While she photographed, I fished. I threw a deeper running lipped crankbait out into the churning water and dragged it back. I caught a few bass like that in the few minutes I was standing there. Moving water seemed to be a great spot to fish.

After fishing and photography we paddled back to camp for a bit, then went out in the canoe again for some fishing. We didn't catch anything while in the canoe, but found this little log cabin ranger station. It was weird to see. It was the only man made structure we had seen in days. The windows were boarded up and there was a no trespassing sign, property of USA on it. Paddled back to camp after some unsuccessful fishing. I got dinner going and made a fire. We fished just a bit more that night right from camp. Carly, who had been wanting to catch a fish, finally got into the walleyes! Except it was the same size as the lure :) It still counts! It would be another amazing night of the sound of waterfalls as we stayed warm around the campfire looking at the sky's endless star display. It was going to be sad to leave this place tomorrow.