My brother was home for the weekend so I persuaded him to come canoeing. The weather was supposed to be reasonable so I thought it was a good excuse for my first sea canoeing experience - I've been dying to get to Salt Island ever since I got the canoe so this seemed like a good opportunity. Unfortunately the wind ended up in the South (the worst possible direction) and was blowing 15mph or so. We decided to go anyway and the paddle over was absolutely torturous and I considered jumping over the side a few times ;) It was so tough we even had to stop and hang on to a mooring after 10 minutes because we were knackered and if we had stopped paddling for a rest we'd have gotten blown back to Killyleagh. However it was worth the effort and satisfying when we got there. We pitched a tarp and hammock in the woods, made coffee on the Jetboil and sausage and bacon rolls on the Trangia. Then we cooked more bacon on the hobo stove just because you can never have too much bacon and I don't need much of an excuse to light a fire :) The paddle home was much easier even though the wind had gone round to the west which still wasn't the best but it didn't take too long.
All in all it was a fantastic day and the biggest disappointment was that I didn't bring a sleeping bag because I would have loved to light a fire and stay!!
Ready to leave
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Landed on Salt Island
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Me - unable to use my arms after the paddle
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The best way to spend a Saturday afternoon
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Mmm. Sausages.
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The patented bacon cooking system
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We didn't fancy a game of chicken
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Home again
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Can't wait to go back but I'll not be doing it unless the weather is clement!!