I burnt the ever living shit out of my scalp and face. That’ll teach me to go kayaking without applying sunscreen.
(It’s very burnt)
I went kayaking from onotenopiat to bark bay. It was really fun. We went around an island thhat had a bunch of seals on it. We even saw some dolphins, which the tour guide said was lucky.
They didn’t allow single kayakers, so I was in a double with an older gentleman from Montreal. He was nice.
Because of the logistics, I ended up not hiking a 4 mile part of the trails today, and 3 of the 6 miles I did home were without my giant backpack. That’s because I basically took a water taxi to onotenoia, kayaked to bark bay, and then walked back to onotenoia. Because of that I got to leave my backpack at onotenoia. Those few miles without a backpack were bliss.
Today we walked through a bunch of sandy areas. It’s outrageous how much the tide changes here. There’s literally boats just stranded in the middle of the sand. The tide can rise as much as 14 meters. That’s 42 ft!!! For the places I’m hiking it looks like it’s dropped 4-5 meters throughout the day.
Again. My face and scalp hurt like hell. I’ll be putting in sunscreen religiously for the rest of the trek and wearing a hat. I think I’ll start wearing a hat more in my day to day anyways.
There’s lots more thoughts I’d love to share, but it’s such a pain in the ass to type them out. Maybe I’ll be more in the mood tomorrow.
There’s a river crossing I have to do tomorrow. Low tide is at 8:21 am. I’ll probably leave around 8ish as I have 10 miles to do tomorrow. At a dencently slow pace of 2 miles an hour and a 1 hour brunch break, I should be in by 2. Don’t know what I’ll do with the rest of my day but we’ll see.