June 12 - Breakfast was cooked, consumed, and everything cleaned and put away. After a quick 2 ½ mile paddle and 133-rod portage, we were at the top of Curtain Falls, just as impressive as the night before, I got some pictures of Peter at the top and we moved down the shoreline portage to the safe put in.
Peter fished his way up the shore, catching many bass, and I worked the shore trying to find the pictographs just before campsite 1850. Being early in the day, we ate some snacks and moved further east. The wind started to pick up from the South and we fought our way behind the island that has campsite 1876 on it. It was definitely a good workout, we got some nice waves, but nothing scary or beyond our skill set.
Once we passed the island there was a long paddle into more large waves, but we were soon paddling East with a big island to our south, and the Canadian border to our north. As we paddled around the end of the island, we could see that campsite was take as well as the one on the island straight east. We worked our way south-east to campsite 1879, which seemed small in the dark forest, but after setting up the Lean 3, we had a comfortable spot for dinner, which was caught by Peter. The walleyes were good and we fished some more afterwards. It would have been nice to spend an extra day on Crooked, but we have already used six of our eight days. Tomorrow would bring our longest travel day, including the 320-rod portage between Wagosh and Gun to end the day, or we thought.