Day 2: Allanwater River - Brennan Lake

31 km, 3 portages, 1 line

Woke just before 8AM, cooked a large breakfast and were on the water by 9:30.  Had a quick portage (P11) across an island about a kilometre from the campsite, then into some flat water for ~6 km until P12 (river right, RR) around an awesome “wave train”!!!

Supposedly there are pictographs ~2 km north of this portage as your round into Brennan Lake, we didn’t find any.  We lined a set of moving water and then portaged around (P13) the next set into Brennan Lake and flat water (both the canoe and yours truly love the flat water!).

We did find some pictographs on an island in Brennan Lake (see map).  Also passed 3 outfitting camps, had all sorts of run-ins with motorized boat traffic and sunburnt fishermen wondering how we managed to get there. 

Much to my amusement, one fellow asked us if we too were staying at “the lodge”.  When we explained we were camping, they had a look in our canoe at the two bags of gear and got that wide eyed and confused look on their face… so we paddled on.

Later in the evening a group of exhausted canoeists from Ohio and Illinois passed our site wondering if there were any campsites we knew of close by.  We offered up space on our site, but with two barking jack Russell terriers; they opted for a less than flat, burnt area across the channel.