Basswood Lake
11.5 Miles*
No portages, so it was just a long day of paddling. We stopped once along the way to eat lunch and swim a bit. The main part of the campsite was on a large rock with no shade, so the mosquitos weren't that bad. Unfortunately, the flies were worse there than at the other campsites. Anything in the sun that didn't move was a fly target, especially if it had touched human sweat or anything else that a fly might consider nutritious. (And that's about everything) The flies never made it past just being pests, as they didn't bite and they didn't land on moving things, like us, as much. At least there wasn't a mosquito presence until the evening.
