We were up a bit after 6, ate a cold bar/poptart breakfast and got our stuff down to the outfitter cabin by 7. It was foggy, but fairly warm. We loaded up and were off. I used Gaia GPS on my phone with the NatGeo Trails layer, which shows campsites. It was helpful to navigate the islands and peninsulas in Poplar to get to Lizz. Since there was a slight threat of t-storms in the afternoon, we didn’t dally around and easily made our way through Lizz, Caribou, Horseshoe to Gaskin. Our original plan was to stay on Horseshoe, which has several highly-rated sites, but site 673 and 674 were both occupied and we were feeling good so we decided to go into Gaskin, which also has some great sites. Site 628 was open and we checked it out, but reviewers had indicated 634 was “one of the best in BWCA”, so we pushed off to go check it out. We got a few 100 yards and saw canoes coming from both east and west, so decided to go back and stay at 628. We were there before lunch so got set up and hung out/swam the afternoon. We also paddled over to 634 to check it out and it was occupied—lucky we didn’t try for it! Luckily, the rain did not come during the day, although clouds were filling in from the west so we did not have a great sunset view. It was quite warm, though, but we did have a fire for ambiance. Once it got dark, a few mosquitoes did come out, but it was tolerable. There was a huge storm to the east and we could see lightning constantly for over an hour, but luckily we heard no thunder and it was not moving our direction. It was a great first day!