Saturday, July 20, 2024 Started the day with our usual travel day routine- coffee and oatmeal. The sun is still orange behind the haze, no wind. Portaged into Pickle- steep at the beginning but short. Then across the lake and the portage into Kekekabic, which was easy, one little hill in the middle. Lake calm and it's already getting hot. Shot across to the big island to check out the campsite- it's open! Nice tent pad. It's a well used site but it's shady and there's no trash, so this is our new home. We started to hear thunder, so we got camp set up. Had some lunch and went wood gathering so I can make potato pancakes in the morning. Solar shower is warming up....it's so hot and still. Thunder is all around us now but so far the storms have slid past us to the south.

Showered AND changed clothes......what a luxury! Storms are closer and there's some wind now, feels nice after the heat earlier.

Just past mid day the storms finally found us. Rained pretty hard for awhile, but it's quit now and the camp is sunny while thunder rumbles south of us again. Sitting in the sun watching ripples on the water. Clothes got washed. Climbed the hill behind camp after dinner to a beautiful forest of red pines.

1 week in. The days revolve around the weather, the sunrise and set, meals, the work of travel and setting up camp, firewood. Such peace.

~Spoon Lake, Pickle Lake, Kekekabic Lake