We paddled some and portaged about 8.4 km altogether in 5 days. I recall only one night where I slept “in” my sleeping bag. Thank goodness the lakes are so close by—we needed to swim a lot to keep cool.

Then my niece, the youngest daughter of my brother in Victoria, came to visit. Though she is 14 years old we felt like we had a kid again. Finnegan liked her because she ran and played a lot with the dog.

This morning I got up at 6 to take her to the airport. Then I spent today’s vacation day at work fixing a couple of problems with my “automatic” system.