I only woke three times during the night; a much better sleep, but I was feeling a bit rough this morning. The wind had died down over night. We had breakfast and then checked the weather situation…
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| Breakfast in Merry Harbour |
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| Tony checking the weather forecast on his VHF radio |
We had hashed around a couple plans for the day, but finally settled on staying right where we were for the next night. We would leave the camp set up and have a day paddle to check out some of the Ragged Islands west of Merry Harbour.
With lighter kayaks we crossed the couple of kilometres over to Jarvis Islands. About half way over I suddenly felt like I had not paddled or lost sleep over the last three days. Today would be a good day…
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| The guys arriving at Jarvis Islands |
Then we paddled across the south end of Moor Island and over to the larger Jean de Gaunt Island…
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| Hazen |
We followed the shoreline with intention to continue around the larger island. The other guys checked the time and we would have arrived at our predetermined lunch spot too soon. So we turned back south and paddled toward Lower Dock Island and then around Crane Island.
On the west side of Crane Island we happened upon a crack in the rock...
Clyde had to check it out...
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| Rocks and Clyde just seem to go together... |
It looked like he could fit his kayak inside…. And so he backed in so I could get a picture…
Neville came behind us to have a look as well…
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| Two thumbs up on Day 4... |
From there we continued up and then over to Jean de Gaunt Harbour for lunch. After lunch we all removed our drysuits as it was just too warm in them…
…and we continued our paddle up the west side of Jean de Gaunt Island, and then toward Galton island. We passed by Harbour Islands, Ryans Island, and Hangmans Island. Then over to South Tilt Island where we followed the south shoreline over to, and down between, Lower Gray islands and then back to Merry Harbour.
The other guys went to refill their water containers but I went directly to the campsite. I was hot and wasted no time in getting my swimming trunks on and had a dip in the cove where we had our fire the night before. The water was shallow and therefore warm. As the other guys came back they also went for a dip.
Before supper we had a downpour of rain. Everyone sat in their tents waiting for it to subside. I peeked through my door way and seen Neville walking up from the cove with a tarp over his head. He had been down in the cove and got rained on so he grabbed his tarp off his kayak on the way to his tent to try to keep from getting wet.
The rain stopped and the guys tied Neville’s tarp up so we could have supper under it.
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| Hazen and Neville |
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| Hazen, Tony, and Clyde |
It rained off and on for a while but we were determined to have a campfire. We tied up another tarp down by the fire site in case it rained again. It didn’t rain and so we had another decent fire and a few drinks before turning in…
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| Clyde |
Jeez, these shots of the back of my head show me balding badly. I'll have to remember to keep my cap on *lol*
ReplyDeleteTony :-)