Distance 24 km [908 km] Portage 1 [19] Very Fast Water 2 [39] Rapids 2 [35] A great day! We woke early to blue skies, calm mirror like conditions and judging by the zillions of black flies and mosquitoes the…
Day 40
Distance 22 km [884 km] Portage 2 [18] Very Fast Water 4 [37] Rapids 1 [33] Cloudy and cool morning with lots of friendly insects! We had to paddle a longer route around an island as the low water levels…
Day 39
Distance 30 km [862 km] Portage 2 [18] Very Fast Water 3 [33] Rapids 1 [32] Awoke to a beautiful morning and a million mosquitoes! We spent about three hours getting through the long Uksuriajuaq Rapids. They are about five…
Day 38
Distance 33 km [832 km] Portage 0 [16] Very Fast Water 3 [33] Rapids 3 [31] We woke to a cold but still very ‘buggy’ morning with a moderate headwind. It was so good to be back on the river…
Day 37
Distance 13 km [799 km] Portage 0 [16] Very Fast Water 0 [30] Rapids 0 [28] Listened to the Radio Australia news before getting going and, like every civilised human being, are appalled by the news of the Malaysian civil…
Day 36
Distance 2 km [786km] Portage 1 [16] Very Fast Water 0 [30] Rapids 0 [28] We woke to a cold, windy morning. The forecast was for 50 kph winds so it was obvious that there would be no paddling. After…
Day 35
Planned rest day to check out Dubawnt Canyon Distance 0 km [784km] Portage 0 [15] Very Fast Water 0 [30] Rapids 0 [28] Slept in as it was a designated rest day and we had had an interrupted night. It…
Day 34
Distance 30 km [784km] Portage 1 [15] Very Fast Water 0 [30] Rapids 3 [28] We listened to Radio Australia’s news bulletin for 6am our time, such luxury. The morning was cool and misty with threatening rain and swarms of…
Day 33
Distance 24 km [754km] Portage 0 [14] Very Fast Water 0 [30] Rapids 1 [25] Late start, then we set off across open water with a mild quartering tail wind. We reached Tukto, an outpost fishing camp, by mid-morning. John…
Day 32
Distance 41 km [730km] Portage 0 [14] Very Fast Water 0 [30] Rapids 0 [24] We set out early as we had some big expanses of open water and the wind was already a moderate quartering headwind. It had already…