Saturday, July 03, 2021 The birds and major squirrel battle in the middle of camp woke us up the next morning. I got up and cast from shore a few times till I got caught in a tree. The sun came up a dark orange ball. I tried to take a picture, but my camera wouldn't capture the color even with manual focus. Dan got up and got it a little late with his camera. We decided to stay 3 nights and then work back toward Ensign since we weren't seeing many people. I think a lot of people leave for the 4th and it picks back up afterward. Mid 60s early in am. Made taquitos with Ova Easy eggs, flour tortillas, picante sauce and cheese. The cheese has become an amorphous mass. It's real american cheese. I doesn't taste or look too bad, but it's hard to separate. We made them with 3 eggs and decided we should use 4 next time. Note to self. Cleaned dishes, refilled sunshower for handwashing and later showers, hung bear bags and went fishing around the island across from the site.
The cliffs are pretty neat and there are spaces between the rocks with some shade where we found a rock for an anchor. Kind of neat area to poke around in. We never found the campsite that is supposed to be on the back side. We did check out site 1178 behind the island. It's very scenic but very enclosed, no sitting rocks by water or view from the grate. poor sitting logs. The latrine is very unused, but you'd need to cut back the rose bushes encroaching it. Came back started lunch. Primus stove was acting up and we found the hose connection had a leak. Changed to MSR stove. Had Gouda cheese, crackers Cup O soup and Fritoes. It was hot so we tried swimming for the 1st time. We didn't last long. Too cold for people from Texas I guess. There were lots of little fish that swam around checking us out. It helped with the heat though. We showered off and were glad we had bathing suits as groups of people started coming by to see if the sight was taken. We had Tuna noodle Casserole, corn and pecan sandies. We decided we only needed 1 tuna packet, so had one to spare. We used freeze dried celery from North Bay Trading co. CupOSoup, milk powder and spices and the Frankencheese. It was edible. We went fishing after cleaning up and I hooked a nice size Walleye a little way out in the cove in front of the site. It was about 8pm, so I wasn't upset when it shook the hook while I was grabbing the fish gripper. There were a few biting flies at this site and a large fly or small bee that kept orbiting our head that was a little annoying. We would whack it off course with our hat a few times and then it would go do the same thing to the other person. Not sure what that was about as it never tried to land, just went round and round. The other complaint we had about the site was some jerk had thrown a bunch of fish skins in the water in front of the camp. We tried to fish them out, but couldn't get them. Pictures are of site 1178
1 mile paddling.