Tuesday, August 05, 2014 Day 5 Lakes paddled - None Paddled 0 miles, 0 portages/0 rods. Rest day spent fishing, exploring and eating blueberries. Unfortunately, we were so eager to start the trip at first light, we neglected to purchase fishing lures. All we had was small mouth bass lures. One of our fishing poles broke. We are not good fishermen to start with, these challenges made fishing a fun event, but not something that we spent much time with.
Dad's Journal
The Fish. We rested today, not the best site but nice tent pad nesteled in the trees to protect against storms. We both caught fish and ate them for dinner. No loons, but we saw the eagle several times. Saw three groups of people today. Early start tomorrow.

Daughter's Journal
Today was a pretty good day. Our rest day. Campsite was nice although the mosquitoes are swarming here. I've found my new torture, mosquitoes.. especially when they bite my ankles. Also the constant buzzing at night is ridiculous. We spent the day fishing, had several bites but only caught one small bass. Dad caught a bass and a small pike. we had that for dinner. We aren't going to starve! We also found a plaque dedicated to "Lil Brother" There were tons of blueberries around there. Probably picked a pint all together. There are also bald eagles across the way from us. That's pretty darn neat. Dad and I are getting along great, although we sometimes get short with each other. I feel bad he's doing the bear bag all by himself but the mosquitoes are eating me up, but not him. Only a week left! Crazy but I'm ready for a real shower and no mosquitoes. I've killed probably 50 by now, if not 75. Another one....