Wind continued through the night, but the whitecaps disappeared. We were on the water before 8:00, hoping to get down the lake before winds picked up. Today's winds are from the south, which is our general direction of travel. Wind wasn't too bad on the smaller no-name lakes, but several portages were hard to find, and one of those had two 'false starts' that had been recently blocked with brush by portage crews. The portage into McIntyre is something else—down a steep bluff! We first found it several years ago and for an hour that trip were certain it wasn't a portage. Our newer maps show 17 meters elevation difference between these lake surfaces, and the trail down the bluff doesn't seem too much longer than that! We found a nice campsite near tomorrow's portage toward Cecil. Had a great dinner of shrimp with garlic shells after appetizers of zucchini chips and humus, then cheesecake for dessert. After dinner the mist rolled in and the lake slowly disappeared.