I just yelled at Doug “Let’s just do it!” After quite an exhilarating ride I finally landed on solid ground, popped the skirt, bounced out and grabbed my front toggle and I see Doug walking down the beach towards me, his kayak right side up but quite a ways down from mine. We were trying to find the “perfect” spot for this but we kept getting pushed in closer and closer. Once we got closer to the shoreline it was clear that the only landing would be surf landing. It seemed to take forever to paddle into Calvin Falls. By this time we were both tired and ready to call it a day. We paddled down the coast to Skuna Bay where it seemed that we stopped moving. We passed by Third Beach as we didn’t need a break yet. We crossed over Nuchatlitz Inlet (so named by us as I can’t find an actual name for this body of water) and over to Ferrer Point. Paddling conditions were perfect as the water was very calm and the sun came out again today. We had to pack our gear and boats in the dark and quite a distance as the only campsite we could get to the day before was not accessible at low tide. That plan was abandoned and we headed to Calvin Falls on Monday, again very early in the morning. We were originally going to go to Tongue Point and camp there on Monday night and maybe even Tuesday night. It was then that we decided we should take advantage of the no winds and get down the coast in the next two days. Upon listening to the marine weather on Sunday evening we realized that there was NO wind for the next two days, but starting to get pretty breezy by Wednesday afternoon and becoming very windy for the 3 days following. We were here once before and there were places we didn’t get to that we would have liked to, so Plan B was one that we could both be happy with. Our back up plan for this trip, if the wind/weather turned bad on us and kept us off the coast, was to stay in Nuchatlitz and enjoy this area. We had checked out Rosa Island on the way over and there were so many tents on it that we didn’t bother looking for a spot for our tent. We were able to find a spot on Island 44, west of the main campsite which was booked up. We then decided to paddle into Nuchatlitz, about another hour, and to look for a nicer campsite. When we arrived at Garden Point we had a good look around and decided that the campsite here was quite dark and not really appealing to us.
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