First Solo Canoe Trip

Sorry those are a bit out of order but still.

It rained the second day, but cleared by the evening so took a star photo with my bad camera (it's not bad, it's a mirrorless camera with the lens it came with - I do have my fancy $24 shutter release though!)

I had a great time!

It was lovely the first day to keep running into the same two women at portages - and as a grumpy 43 year old woman (ha!) nothing annoys me more than seeing women on a canoe trip in the bow while a man - who inevitably doesn't know how to stern and keeps switching the sides he's paddling on (which makes my eyes bleed, I swear). So seeing two other women on trip was lovely - when I do trip with other people it's often with women who are also experienced (or I'm sterning haha - I have my standards to keep up, plus, grumpy feminist! - also, I know what I'm doing).

Anyways, every other woman I saw out there was in the bow (or one, not paddling at all!) while a man sterned. Or the men were carrying the canoes on the portage. Makes me sigh. At least SOME of the men knew what they were doing which doesn't bug me as much.

But the sites I had were both beautiful, bugs weren't bad. Canoe was surprisingly light (which was nice; I'm not the 15 year old carrying a 80lb canoe any more - I am aged! AGED!

But the stars especially the last night were magical. I just lay on the rocks looking at them. Saw two shooting stars. Go back to that site mid-June and I'm using a different style boat so it'll be interesting to see if it's still as fast. Yesterday I covered 14.5k in a bit over 3 hours which doesn't sound fast but given I had double trip portages and was alone in the boat I was very happy with!