Starwatcher...the "average year" sees most of that end of the portage under water.  Don't have pics...but the reason that "planking" is there is because the water is usally somewhere between ankles and mid leg.....if you manage to stay on the planking.  Problem is...it floats as well.  I've seen more grouse concentrated there (the sandpit end)....in the BWCA, than anywhere else.