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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 39
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 40
Distance 14.5 km [ 796 km] Portages 1 [27] Awoke to a brief shower and “our old friend” the west wind. It was freezing cold and we both felt so despondent we stayed in bed for a further hour. We…