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We were up at 0730, had breakfast and put the dinghy down to go ashore by 0900. We took our burnable and nonburnable trash with us to dispose of at the trail head for the Ojibwe pictographs. It was another cold, grey, overcast day but we had no rain during the night or morning. The hike to the pictographs warmed us up but we were disappointed to find the rocks below the pictographs wet and slippery. We could not see them as well as when we viewed them from the dinghy in 2005. From the pictographs we hiked back toward Sinclair Cove and took the trail to the heights above the cove. In 2005 Bob Sanderson and I found lots of blueberries there, but this year there was not a single ripe one and not many at all. So it was back to the boat empty handed and off to Gargantua at 1115. Initially there was no wind on the lake yet a 2-3 foot NW swell . Soon the reason for the swell became apparent as the wind piped up to 15 -18 knots from the NW. I filled the aft water tank from the lake using the wash down pump during the trip. Although the boat does well pounding into big swells , I do not find it as comfortable. Thank goodness for the short trip of only 17 NM. We arrived in Gargantua at 1400. No pleasure craft were there but the fishing tugs F.B. Clay and Coranet were rafted up to the same makeshift dock we found Coranet at in 2005. Kevin and I took the dinghy over and found the same skipper who sold me Lake Trout in 2005. I split the six pounds of fresh Lake Trout we purchased in two. We will have half for dinner tonight and the other have went into the freezer for later in the trip.

We also hiked around the Harbour to visit the various ruins, the camp sites for the hiking trail and we visited the wreck of the tug Columbus which caught fire and sank here in 1910. Much of it is still intact and quite visible in the crystal clear water.

While this trip up the lake is only 3 days old , it is still quite a contrast to the warm, sunny weather we had in 2005. I hope some of that is coming, but the forecast for the next several days is not good. Tomorrow we are off to well protected Brule Harbour where we will hunker down if the storm they are predicting for Thursday materializes.