Saturday, June 21, 2025 2nd full day on Sagus 3:15 am. Woken up to frequent thunder and lightning. We can hear some wind in the tree tops, but the tent is pretty protected from the wind. It's a little worrying since the huge pine tree in the middle of the campsite has a pretty significant lean across the middle of the campsite starting about half way up. It doesn't go directly over the tent, but could knock some other trees our way.The wind didn't seem enough to move out from where we were. It rained pretty hard for a while, but the lightning never seemed too close, so we tried to go back to sleep. Later we heard that there was a 90 mile an hour straight line wind south of us in Bemidji. That would have been really scary in that campsite.

We got up the next morning and had cereal so we could go out fishing earlier. Dan caught and released a small Walleye down near the 25 rod portage to Shepo. I walked the portage to see if it would be better to go out the 2 portages. It was rocky, rooty, boggy and hot. That end of Shepo was shallow and rocky and full of lily pads. We decided to take the longer higher portage we came in on the next day.

We went back to camp and had PB&J sandwiches, did camp chores, took showers with the Sun shower and did laundry. It was hot, but a little late. Most of the laundry didn't get dry, so we hung it up in the tent. We put paracord along the top of the tent at home, so there was room, but it still wasn't dry in the morning, so we had to pack some of it up damp.

We got to bed at midnight. It was even hotter this night, which made it even harder to sleep. Not sleeping was getting to be a trend. We could hear lots of birds at this site. Also, lots of biting flies in the afternoons, but there were several butterflies, and several bunny sightings. We liked the site a lot. the main downsides were the steep hike to the lake and the latrine. We didn't see any other people for the 2 days there. Flowers on latrine trail