Day 3, June 24, 2019

Rolled out of my sleeping bag at 06:11.  It had rained a little during the night.  We went about what was to become our usual morning routine:  I prepared our breakfast of oatmeal and tea while Keith packed up the tent and its contents.  While we were having breakfast we saw our first wildlife - a small rabbit walked through the campsite.  We left the campsite around 09:15 and paddled 6.8km to the head of the main arm of Isaac Lake where we stopped next to the ranger station at Camp 15 for a short rest and a quick snack.  From there we continued south down the lake, stopping once to put on our rain jackets as it had started to rain.  It was just a squall but enough to make rain jackets necessary.  A we continued to travel along the wind started to get stronger from behind us and the waves began to grow.  We were approaching Camp 18 so we decided to pull in and wait out the wind and the waves.  The campsite marker was difficult to see but we were paddling close to the shore so fortunately we spotted it.  Stopping at this campsite was a good decision.  Just after we pulled in the wind increased to the point where there were whitecaps blowing along.

If we hadn't stopped at this spot we would have missed a great campsite;  well sheltered from the north and with a log cabin for us to sleep in.  We settled in, made vegetable soup and boiled water to replenish our water supply.  Keith used my MSR water filter to pump 2L into our water bag.  Then we spent the rest of the afternoon exploring and making tea.  Obviously a couple of expat Brits!!  Between 16:00 and 17:00 the wind veered 180 degrees to be coming from the south with enough strength to create whitecaps again.  We were both happy that we were in camp and not fighting the wind and waves.  

When I was preparing for this trip I used some recipes from the internet to make dehydrated meals.  So when I started supper at 18:10 I used my home dried Georgian Chicken Stew.  The result was a meal with really good flavour and soft vegetables but the chicken was so hard to chew I had visions of an expensive visit to the dentist.
​By 19:00 the wind had died down and by 20:00 the lake was flat calm.