August 4, 2013
We got another early start and needed to make some distance. So not much exploring, just enjoying the scenery as we paddled. The last couple days we’d had a bit of a quartering tailwind. But now as we turned to more of an easterly heading, it became a nice straight tailwind. We had some fun paddling and surfing till the winds built and the waves became a bit too much. We took some shelter in Pilot Harbour and waited it out. We couldn’t find any place there that looked like a good spot to camp. So we had dinner and waited. Then just before we decided to take the best of the worst places for camp, we saw that the winds had died and we made a dash down the coast. 25 minutes later we slipped into Floating Heart Bay to camp. There was high surf in one spot where the others said they couldn’t see my kayak or the top end of my paddle while I was in the trough of the waves. Mostly we’d been in 3-4’ surf, but this was maybe an 8’ spot. Luckily we didn’t have to land in anything like that. It wasn’t long and we had the tents up and a nice warming fire.

It'd been a tough day. But nobody had tipped and we'd made a good 40 kms. Bruce said he'd only had one group ever do close to that distance in one day before. He was having fun leading this group. Although we were tired, everyone seemed to be holding up OK.