Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Wednesday: Sunshine and blue sky we got up at 7:00 am. We ate oatmeal and had hot chocolate for breakfast. We decided to load up and head to South Temperance by 10:00a.m. We were at the first portage by 12:15, it was a very easy portage, we generally make two trips to carry our 4 backpacks and the canoe and the canoe paddles , it was a hard paddle across this big lake, and at times I wondered if we were going to make it across this big bad lake. We wire our fishing poles in the canoe and our life jackets we hook to our seats when we portage. My husband has that job of carry the canoe. We found the first camp by 2:00 it was the last camp on the lake but didn’t like so we canoed back 1 mile to the first camp on Temperance but another family beat us to that camp by just strokes of the paddle. We really wanted that camp on the big rock. We headed back to the first camp #907 on BWCA map and got unloaded. I was just happy to be getting settled. I get very nervous about changing camp sites. We headed out fishing. Dan caught Northern and small mouth. We headed in for supper we had Beef stroganoff and spaghetti and meat sauce, turned in by 8:30. Beat from the morning of canoeing on the big lake. Dan even took Tylenol. We have been reading an old book “the call of the Canyon” by Zane Gregg. I read a few chapters and we were fast asleep, well not really I am always listening. We had a awesome day, it is such a new adventure everyday.