Thursday, August 25, 2022 Ahh the rain moved on and it's a pretty quiet morning. Mart brings me a cup of coffee to my hammock which is greatly appreciated. Though I think his ulterior motive is get me out of the hammock. It hard to enjoy coffee in a hammock with no table handy. We got a lot of miles to cover today to make up for lost time. It is an absolutely gorgeous day. The scary wind and waves of dreary yesterday are replaced by glass smooth water and blue skies with sculptured clouds. It was a beautiful paddle as we hopped back and forth over the border in the most direct route across Crooked. We aimed for Little Current as it was the quickest route. And we wouldn't have to expend extra effort going up big current. When you get to Little Current, It's pretty obvious. We stop here for lunch. The breeze is picking up at this point which is okay. We've crossed all the big water for today. . We paddle through Little Current and continue. No portaging at all today! We've only seen one canoe with a couple headed to Curtain Falls for the entire time on Crooked. As we head South around the corner into Wednesday Bay, there is a moose swimming across the border to the island. Check mark for my first moose sighting in the BW. He is pretty far away and we figure he'll be on shore and into the woods before we can get close for pictures. This is the Island where John Galt said he'd be camping on for that week. I said I'd stop by if we can find him but we are pressed for time so I continue to chase the tandem. I didn't see a canoe at his camp so I figured he was out somewhere. Turned out he was there. His canoe was up behind some rocks and he was in the trees reading a book. He said he saw us disappearing around the corner to the south but didn't know how far we were going so he didn't chase us. Sorry John, maybe we can have that whiskey and cigar campfire some other time. (Besides I didn't bring the cigars and the whiskey was running low.) We continued against the current and breeze for another 3.5 miles to campsite #1864 and call it a day. In that section we see one canoe with three guys, coolers and a lot of fishing gear headed North. They are moving along really well with a tail wind and the current. The end of a 13 mile day and still feeling pretty good. It's a nice site but not a lot of hammock hangs available. We get it figured out and head to the shore for some fishing. The smallmouth bite is okay and we harass them for a while. Take a nice swim to wash off the grime then more fishing and relaxing. Later in the afternoon, we see the same couple from this morning headed back towards LBF. After they pass and head upstream, Mart says "That guy has the perfect j-stroke" . I watch for a few strokes and don't even notice. He was very smooth with it. I'll find out why tomorrow. Diner and a nice sunset finish off a great day.

Total people/groups seen; the couple headed to Curtain Falls, Twice!. the group of three fishermen in the canoe, and some campers at the nice site around the corner from Little Current.