Hearne Channel
Distance: 31km [cumulative total 125 km] InReach: Day 4 Paddled in sunshine and light winds Did about 31km Stopped a bit early when a pebble beach suitable for camping appeared All well J&K Camp: 62.069°N 112.591°W Got away late but in brilliant sunshine with the calmest of water and a very slight tailwind. Made excellent progress along some of the most featureless coast you could imagine. The sun sparkled on the water like diamonds and you felt glad to be alive and paddling. By lunch time we had seen our first remnant snow /ice banks onshore and on the islands. We lunched on an island by one of these snow banks. Though we saw little wildlife it was great day for water fowl. We saw several types of duck, terns, loons, lake gulls and Canada geese. Being only several days travel from Yellowknife we saw a few boats and several bush planes.
Heading east in mill pond conditions on Great Slave Lake

Remnant winter ice at our lunch stop

Campsite on the pebble beach

Wildflowers and bright orange lichen