Distance 37km [781.5 km] Rapids 5 Portages 0 A big day – This was our last day of running white water on the Fond du Lac. It has been exciting, scary, fun and an enormous learning curve but we are…
Day 38
Distance 6.5 km [744.5 km] Rapids 1 Portages 0 Slept in. Up at 7am, cold and breezy but patches of blue sky promised better things. On the water by 8.30 and through Hawkrock Rapids before 9am. Paddling the three kilometres…
Day 37
Happy Birthday Shona Distance 23 km [738 km ] Rapids 5 Lining 1 Portage 0 It was still raining hard when we woke up but the wind had dropped, we waited until 7pm when it was looking better and had…
Day 36
Distance 16.5 km [715 km] Rapids 7 Portages 1 Woke just after 6am to a very cool, windy morning but before long it was sunny and the wind had abated some. We were expecting a warm day with a good…
Day 35
Distance 7.5 km [698.5 km] Rapids 6 Portages 2 The collective weariness of 35 days hard travelling is starting to show, we have elected to have a second short day, stopping by lunch time. Last night we were camped in…
Day 34
Distance 15km [691 km] Rapids 5 Portages 0 We were back on the river by 8.30 am on a very, smoky morning. Our camp site was super basic but as its purpose was to be somewhere we could keep safe…
Day 33
Distance 27km [676 km] Rapids 5 Portages 1 Up early after a great nights sleep in an excellent camp site. It was a very smoky overcast morning but we made excellent progress to the first rapid [class 2+ / 3]…
Day 32
Distance 11km [649 km] Rapids 2 Portages 0 We were awake by 6am after a poor nights sleep but dwalled until 7am when I started writing up my journal for yesterday, John dozed until 8am and then did his maps…
Day 31
Distance 20km [638 km ] Portages 3 Rapids 4 Lining 1 It is days like today that you have to ask the question, are we having fun? and question our sanity in doing these trips. Why, fun? experience? Do we…
Day 30
Distance 20km [638 km ] Rapids 2 Lining 2 It was a very cold night and as the pressure is now off we stayed in bed until 7am. The wind was very cold and remained with us all day. After…