I went to bed last night around 8:30PM after that full day. I slept like a rock, without any assistance at all. I only awoke around 1AM because the inside temperature of the trailer had fallen precipitously to 6 degrees overnight. The outside temperature was 3 degrees. I won't die, probably, but I certainly won't sleep either. It was time to lift up the center section of the bed and pull out the trusty sleeping bag. Problem solved.. until 5 AM when I was really supposed to get up. Now, since the sleeping bag was containing my body heat nicely, the external temperature inside the trailer was MUCH closer to the outside temp. I stuck a toe out experimentally, and withdrew it quickly. I have a small 12 volt windsheild defroster/heater. It only puts out about 150W of heat and draws about 6-10 Amps while running. The lithium had hardly shown any sign of dipping, so i turned that thing on for about half an hour. Within that period, the temperature in the trailer rose to a somewhat comfortable 10 degrees, and so I got out from under my covers and got dressed. Except.. I left my clean underwear for today in the car.. oh boy. So knowing I have this entire section to myself, I slip on my slippers in bare feet, t-shirt and shorts and brave the cold for about 2 minutes, closing the door behind me quickly to avoid my hard paid for heat escaping, I mean, its basically the sun that I stored earlier, and now am spending for heat. You wouldn't waste the sun would you? I had a quick Granola breakfast with a juice box, granola bar and the usual instant coffee. After cleaning up, It was time to head back to old woman bay and across the road this time. When I arrived at Old Woman Bay There were a bunch of sketchy looking construction guys hanging out in the parking lot, so I opted to park way back in the 'secret' parking spot next to Mr. Mason's Monument. I call it secret, because if you come straight in you are presented with old woman bay immediately in front of you, and unless you look you won't even see the road to the west which leads further in. I had read reviews on this trail, and opted to bring a single hiking pole as some of the trail is moderately technical and extra stability might remove some of the chance of getting a sprained (or broken) ankle. After walking across highway 17 I walked into the forest. The trail starts in beautiful boreal lowlands with open spaces filled with moss and bunchberry flowers. Many of the spruce and pine trees here have fresh needles on the end, and I resisted collecting some for some tea later. Pine needle tea is not bad as tea goes, make sure the needles are washed well especially if you collect them along a trail. Put a generous amount of bright green fresh needles in a pot of water and boil. Strain it out, and enjoy. Lots of vitamin C. Anyhow, this part of the trail was prone to mosquitos however, since it was so cold this morning they were lazily floating around in the beams of sun and were mostly driven away by my Deet soaked buff. Shortly in the trail, the ground becomes more difficult, with several fist sized rocks rounded by erosion, probably from the old woman river bursting its banks in the far past. There are several lookouts along the trail over highway 17 and the river, some official, and some not. I highly reccomend this trail, but make sure you have good footwear, if your feet are not very strong, get something with a strong sole. I've been walking in bare feet whenever possible but of course the shapes of these rocks are not the same as the usual flat floors I walk on barefoot. The Keen hikers I have have a fairly flexible sole, and that gives good traction on oddly shaped surfaces, but requires a bit of foot flexibility as well. Sore feet is the result, perhaps I will invest in some bare foot style shoes at a later date to increase my foot strength. I struggled a bit on the steep sections of the trail, and more than once found my hiking pole disapearing into a bottomless hole that was once solid ground. Best be careful using your full weight here, the roots make surfaces over cracks in the rock where dirt and moss forms and it might be okay to stand on, but something like a pole will pierce it easily. The pole was very useful for descending the rocks so I was glad I took it. I took my break at around a half-way point overlooking a vast valley of boreal trees. There was a bird soaring on thermals and unfortunately dissapeared from view before I could get my big 500mm prepared. I took a few photos here, and at the other points, and was finished the trail by 11:30ish AM. I decided since this is my final day, to visit the very favorite place of my favorite place in Ontario, Katherine's cove (though after this trip, old woman bay might be knocking that off!) I waded out a bit into the bay and collected some water for boiling. An older version of myself with a fancy camper van asked me 'can you drink the water here' and I said 'If you Boil it, I mean, you could drink it as is.. but you might get sick' He left shortly after. I then spent the next 30 or so minutes trying to block my stove from the wind so it could actually boil the water for 5 minutes, before I used it to make instant ramen and then ate. While I was doing this, a family of potatoes came, the dad was a potato, the mom was a potato, the two sons were potatos, and then there was one daughter who was a french fry. I was somewhat confused. Later, a man who appeared to be in his late twenties came with an older woman. The man had his smart phone blaring music, on speaker, and he walked all over with it playing music like that. He did look like a 'dude bro'. After lunch, I put stuff away dirty, to be washed before I prepare dinner tonight. I then got my backpack and camera, and headed down the coastal trail towards the soo. I got about 2KM down and found a nice rock point with sun shining on it, and decided to camp out for a half hour, taking pictures and just enjoying the day. I had my plans quickly changed by a sudden gust of cold wind off the lake. The wind suddenly changed direction from off the shore to from the lake, and it dropped the temperature so quickly I thought winter had come early. The waves started to come up as well, not too much, but enough for me to be worried. That, and the clouds appearing out of nowhere - little white puffy clouds for sure, but based on my previous experience with Lake Superior, the weather forecast is accurate - until it is not accurate, and that can happen within 5-10 minutes. I turned back, noting the small white puffy clouds turning into a uniform white cloud bank as I did. When, to my surprise, an older couple was coming up this mostly unmarked, not easy trail towards me. They asked 'how far is it?' Confused I said 'well, I think if you keep following this trail you'll end up in the Soo. The man said 'no, till the bathtub island' and I said 'I don't know' Truthfully, I forgot that you could get there following this trail, and then I also remembered that you had to wade, sometimes through chest high water for around 100 meters to get to the island. I expanded 'I don't know, the wind has come up and I'm a bit worried a storm is coming' This couple had no supplies, no water, the man was obviously following a map on a smartphone. But they pressed on. Hopefully we don't hear about them dissapearing later. I expect people to have the same level of responsibility and respect for the lake, and nature in general that I do. Unfortunately, I am wrong. I also hate arguing with people, even for their own good I have found in my life, that people set their mind on something, and you can warn them that it might be wrong, or dangerous, but arguing with them is useless, they just get into a broken loop half the time and won't hear what you're saying. Anyhow, I returned to my car as the sky was completely covered by around 2:30PM and headed back to my camp site, fully satisfied with what I was able to accomplish with the two days I have here, and not wanting to destroy myself for the 5-6 hour drive I have to pull tomorrow to return to Chutes. As I write this, the clouds are still covering, and the odd bit of sun is coming through, though I suppose it could also be smoke from the fires.. hard to tell lately. There is the odd speck of rain on the skylight in the trailer, but nothing really worth mentioning so far. If anything major happens it will probably do so after the sun sets. It is 4:00 now and I'm getting a little peckish. I feel like something simple, especially since my pants are still soaked to the knees and i'm wearing my sleeping shorts right now.. bare legs attract the winged vampires more than anything else. After a meal of dehydrated moderateness (high in SALT.. so thirsty) I spent the remainder of the evening reviewing and backing up photos I'd taken to this point, my 32 gig memory card was nearly full and I needed to move stuff off. Following that was a long, nights sleep, broken up several times by the need to drink, and the other half of that equasion. I also had issues regulating temperature, it wasn't cold enough for the sleeping bag, so I was too hot, but it wasn't warm enough for just the blanket, so I spent most of the night with one leg out, or my torso out, or both legs out.. or trying with nothing, or everything. eventually It dropped to around 10c in the trailer and I was able to sleep soundly right through to around 5:40 AM.