Thursday, August 22, 2019 It was a toss & turning night. Dan said it sprinkled early. We were up at 8:30 packed lunch, made biscuit and gravy for breakfast, we headed to Loon Lake around 11:00 for a day trip. When we were ready to portage a group of two sets of different canoers where on there way out. Cloudy today, with just a touch of blue sky. Cool. Did I tell you how afraid I am about getting in and out of the canoe when it is odd like wet rocks, high rocks anything but standing on the ground and climbing in, well today on the slippery stone at our campsite when I was climbing in I went under the canoe right in the lake, I was soaking wet. Went up to camp put on a dry shirt, took off wet bra and under shirt. Left on my wet pants since they dry fast. I had to laugh. The funny thing is our dog Lil was standing right by Dan, by the canoe while he was fishing from the bank, in the same spot I had slid into the lake and she slid in also. Our plan was to canoe into Loon Lake to just before the Canadian border. We were on Loon Lake by noon. We checked out a couple of campsites, enjoyed a snack. The wind had really picked up and Loon is a big lake. We could see boat house far off & saw two motor boats on the lake. I hard one and said to Dan is that a boat motor or a mosquito. The flies were no problem today. Dan found a Moose head skeleton at the campsite, that is the closest we have come to seeing a moose in the BWCA. We fished but didn’t catch anything, it was a fun day. We headed back to camp, had a little difficulty finding the correct path in the weeds to get back to our portage. We just took a wrong turn. We headed in for Supper. No fish dinner. We saw a few other canoes on our lake but they were just passing thru. At dinner Dan said he thought we should head out on Friday. We sent out daily message to home using the in reach. Had a nice evening and headed into the tent by 8:00 p.m. to avoid the mosquito's. We read some more of the book and then lights out; this chapter was much better, no bear deaths