Left the Cherry site at 8 a.m. and there was a group there already waiting to take it over. Headed to the Lunar portage and find it to be just as difficult as I remember. That spot that goes through the creek really tested me, but I made it through in decent time. Took me about 10 minutes to find the portage into Lake of the Clouds, I thought it was further West than it actually was. Made it to Gijikiki around noon and took a nice accidental swim up to my shoulders. Since I was soaking wet and pretty tired, I set up camp on the island site on Gijikiki(site #2007).

Hung my clothes up to dry and climbed inside my sleeping bag, I was freezing. Probably was only in the lower 50s that day, but combined with the wind and my soaking wet clothes, I was really cold.

Took a nap and woke up to much better weather, the wind had calmed and it was sunny. Cooked dinner and hung out around the fire pit. This site's fire pit might be the best I saw on my trip, it's huge and has plenty of seating for a large group.

After checking the forecast I decided to change my route. The plan for the next day was originally to head Northeast up Ottertrack and come back down to the South Arm through Ester and Hanson. A bunch of rain was in the forecast so I decided to be lazy and do another layover since I really liked this site anyways.

Route for day 17.