I woke up pretty early and walked down to the water and saw that Erika (my friends wife) had beat me up. I went up to say good morning and she showed me a picture on her camera that she took a little earlier of a moose cow with two calves that swam across the lake right next to our campsite in front of her. She was pretty excited about it which I was glad of because that is one of the reason I chose the route is to hopefully get some of my friends to see some moose. In a short time the rest of the crew were up. We had some oatmeal and granola bars, packed up camp, then headed out to the portage to Gaskin. It was another beautiful and sunny day for us about a mirror image of the first day. We made our way towards Omega and were hoping to get some seclusion. We wanted to get the lake to ourselves and we were in luck as we got the campsite we wanted and no one else was on the lake. Omega is a very beautiful lake and the campsite was one of the best I’ve stayed at in 15 trips to the BWCA. Once we got the campsite set up we played some cards, ate some lunch and then most people took naps and I went and climbed up a cliff and just sat there for a couple hours, reading my Bible and just thinking about life and all the changes coming for me. It was so wonderful. Then a few of us went out fishing and all we managed were 2 Northern pike so again we were pretty disappointed because you shouldn’t struggle to catch fish in June. I don’t think Omega is a real good fishing lake but you'd think we could catch a decent amount of bass just fishing shoreline but we had no luck. After we got back from fishing a few of us were feeling a little grimy so we jumped into the lake, swam around a bit, and cleaned up. It was very refreshing! Then we got supper going and just hung out and talked for a bit. After a supper of rice and fish, we cleaned up camp a bit and went to play some cards in the tent for an hour or so. Then a few of us had a campfire and a few went right to bed.

Lakes: Horseshoe, Gaskin, Henson, Omega