Tuesday, August 22, 2017 We both got up at 7:30 we planned to head to Gordon today. We had fished there in 2013 when we were on Cherokee. Today we had biscuits and gravy. Beautiful blue skies today but it was very windy, reminded me of when we tried to go across Brule Lake. We headed to Gordon by 10:00 am., We were a little lost where the portage is from Long Island to Gordon. We had a fisher map, Dan had used other maps in the past but wanted to take one for navigating so he didn’t have to put 3 together to use the others he had. He is not crazy about Fisher maps for details. It was too windy of a day to have to canoe extra around the lake looking for the portage. We did check out the campsite just before the Long Island creek, it had a sandy beach landing, but it was far to enclosed for my liking. We then found the creek it had 3 places we had to get out of the canoe to get around where the beavers had been working. We met another canoe coming into Long Island Lake who went ahead and walked their canoe thru the tree limbs etc. We fished the creek for quite a while and we both caught a northern, the time had ticked away so we didn’t make it to Gordon on that trip. We decided we better get back to camp and get our fish cleaned and eaten. Our dog was interested in the fish floating behind us she wouldn’t stay in her spot in the canoe. While we were fishing we saw a canoe with a mom and her two sons probably 8 and 12 year old’s. I was in awe of her making this trip with her boys. She was doing a great job of having them figure out what to do where the Beavers had put trees in the way. They worked at it as a team and got it figured out. They were headed to Long Island and had been on Cherokee. We really enjoyed talking to them. What an adventure for those boys. It was still very windy, we canoed back to camp with fish in tow. A small rain shower came thru on our way back to camp and then again after we got to camp. It only lasted a short time, we got on with our early fish dinner. Lil was having a heck of time staying in the canoe when we were trying to get thru the creek with the beaver dams in the way, we would get her mud rinsed off and put her in the canoe and the Dan would have to get out for one reason or another and out she would go. The Loons put on quite a show for us on the way back to camp there was 4 to 7 of them dancing across the lake and calling to each other. It was quite a show. We had fresh fish and mashed potatoes for supper, yummy. The wind had calmed now. I did the dishes and then the sun came out and shone, glories’. We saw (2) sets of canoes pass our camp tonight. About 7:30 it started raining so headed into the tent. It softly rained all night. More of our book. The looms were singing to us.