Wednesday, August 07, 2019 The next morning we woke up to hear other campers beginning there day. Hushed talk and excitement in each group that passed by our hammock tent. Remember we had to camp on the base of the portage. It was still drizzly out and my watch read 5:15. We started to get up, waking the kids, and pulling out breakfast bars, dried fruit and starting the coffee. One by one the kids emerged from their tent, sleep still in there eyes. We all sat in silence as we ate breakfast and enjoyed some hot coffee. The talk of our plans for the day started. We all agreed that we wanted to at least see the falls and agreed a small hike and sight seeing was a must prior to starting back down the river. Our goal was to hope for an open site on Horse today and plan B was to portage to Four Town Lake if none where available. By the time we had our camp packed up, we had counted 6 canoes that all planned on heading to Horse. We realized very quickly that an open spot on Horse Lake was probably not going to happen, and we where right. We reached horse and nothing was open. We began heading to the portage that led to Fourtown Lake. It was now a little past noon. We came to the first campsite on the map, it was taken. The occupants where a friendly older crew, that told us about there difficulty finding a camp site the past couple nights as well. We kept on, the 2nd campsite taken and the third. The kids where getting anxious and starting to worry that we again would be stuck paddling all day with no real campsite to call home for the next 2 nights. Finally the 5th site we came to was open. We took it! it was a beautifully laid out site, spacious and great views. The downfall was the openness left us exposed to the wind. We set up camp and the kids began to explore. We got a fire going, which proved difficult when the wind was working against you. So we walked around scouting any larger rocks to carry back to camp and help build up around the fire pit to protect the grate and the flames from the wind. This also kept us off the lake as the wind was making some pretty good sized whitecaps and we dare not take the kids out on that. We tried some shore fishing, with no luck. This day came to an end with a good supper of spanish rice, dehydrated hamburger and corn muffins. We finished it out with some good old story telling and everyone settled in for the night around 9 p.m.