12:30am. Thunderstorm one rolls through. I have been in some storms in a tent the worst being in the Everglades when I was pretty sure it the tent was going to get ripped off... This storm was a close second as we woke up to the tent coming down on us from the wind, a canvas bucket came flying across the site and hit the tent, as well as a branch from the nearby tree. Luckily no damage.  Endless lightning for about 4 or so hours random gusts of intense wind and a good round of hail mixed in all made for a fantastically relaxing first nights sleep.... Nope no sleep. We finally got up about 730 to stuff strewn all around the campsite, anything that wasn't tied down went for a ride. Chairs, clothes, towels etc... but best of all was my buddy said he didn't need to flip his canoe for the night thought it would be just fine. He woke up to a canoe full of water and me laughing at him. After the cleanup we made a fire to start breakfast and a stiff cup of Coffee obviously led the charge of the day. We packed up and headed off through the basswood falls portage a quick 5 min paddle away. The goal for the day was the top of Wednesday bay hopefully the island just before the curve towards Thursday. Enjoyed the pictographs, a nice tail wind for the day and the current in our favor so despite the later than wanted start we made good time up into crooked. After scouting out a site on the bay between Wednesday and Thursday bay we decided to see if anything on Thursday bay was open as we wanted to fish there. Sent a team to the open site and my wife, son and I went to explore Thursday. Once we rounded the tip, it was head on into white caps so the decision was easily made to turn back as we knew the rookies would not make it through unscathed. Set up camp at a nice site and ended up having the whole bay to ourselves for the next 3 days.