Losee Boy's Outdoors: Friday, August 6, 2010

Sunrise

I was up at 5 this morning and we had breakfast done and ready to hit the water at 6:45 am. Ethan found a GIANT Leach this morning. Bet that it was over 8 inches long stretched out. He kept it for bait (wish we had several dozen more).

We were on the water this morning at 6:45.It was a beautiful morning to be moving across the water.

The result of the leach was……………

We had lunch today after the Curtain Falls portage (139 rods).

Curtain Falls

Bert at Piragis said that we should go check out Rebeca Falls in Ontario since we would be so close to it. It was some of the most beautiful water that we would encounter (48 º14.7751’, W091 º55.9452’).

There are two sides to this waterfall. If you are to portage it, I would take the south route as the north side we had to jump to make it around.

Rebeca Falls - North Side, Towards Top

Rebeca Falls - North Side

Rebeca Falls - South Side

Water was pouring out here in a circle the size of a basketball.

After we left Rebeca Falls we headed towards Bottle Lake for probably the hardest portage of the entire trip. This was an eighty rod at Bottle Portage. It was a swamp / bog getting out, and the portage was a mud hole the entire way. It was about 2:30 when we got done with the portage, time to look for a campsite.

This was not to be our day as it took us until 6 pm to find a camp site. Everywhere we look, they were full. It was over eleven hours since we had left our previous camp in the morning.

We had to go all the way up to Camp Site # 169, straight across from the pictographs on Lac La Croix. Not a very good campsite at all, but it’s all that we could get. Bees’ were swarming, but didn’t bother us except for the sound. We were too tired to care about them.