Thursday, July 02, 2020 LAYOVER DAY I am not a huge fan of layover days, but I really had no choice. With my ankle feeling better, but my left knee still too swollen to bend, it would be irresponsible to skip my pre-planned layover day. To avoid boredom, I took an early morning paddle around Omega. The lake was a perfect mirror and so beautiful.

I had a massive breakfast with hashbrowns, cheese, vegetables, eggs, and bacon. I had too many hashbrowns, but I managed to finish them. After breakfast, I paddled and portaged an empty canoe over to Henson to look for the boys. No one was camped on Henson. That is a really long lake, but every campsite was empty. I had looked forward to finding them, so my brain started doing the mom thing of, "I hope they are okay. Did they get hurt? Why aren't they here?" Couldn't do anything about it, so nap time.

Pretty quiet afternoon. I napped, had a salami and cheese lunch, finished reading "The Voyageur's Highway", swam a lot, had a snack, watched canoes hunt for campsites, watched ants carrying things, watched a solitary bee suck something tasty off my skin, broke apart wood chips left over from axe crazed campers. Hot, hot, hot today! At least I wasn't sweating as much and was able to catch up on water intake. The boys not meeting up still weighed on my mind. I hoped they were fine.

After an easy "just boil water" dinner, I organized all my gear to get a quick, efficient start in the morning. I put a smoothie mix in my food jar for a quick, no-cook breakfast, picked out my lunch, packed all the cook gear, filled the water bottles and packed up the filter kit, and then packed up my in-camp clothing. Dueling green frogs again tonight...calling back and forth all night long.

~Omega Lake, Henson Lake, Omega Lake

Portages: 31 rod, then back again (single portage with just canoe)

Miles: 8.5 miles of paddling around Omega and Henson