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Hey, hey, this is T.A. calling in from day three of Labrador 2024 Rigolet to Cartwright kayak trip, and my goodness!

We just watched another amazing sunset-big red ball, so I’m wondering if there’s smoke in the air, the moon is full, or both?

Anyway, we’ve had another rich and full day. I’m probably too tired to tell you about it. 

It was a great start to the day, with a big breakfast of hashbrowns, bacon, and eggs that got us all fueled up. 

We then left the beach. There was just a little bit of lop on the beach, so it was a little exciting start to the day. 

Essentially, it felt like we had a quartering BMC for much of the day, sometimes kicking up pretty good and other times not too much. And what made the difference between kicking up and not so much? How much into the shallows we were. This part of the Labrador coast has these bays that, at low tide, just like the Bay of Fundy, you can walk on the bottoms and then at high tide, they fill right up. Islands appear, and islands almost disappear. So we have to be pretty thoughtful about where we place ourselves for camp and lunch. 

Today we got some water at a brook and couldn’t stay too long because we might not have been able to get out of the back of the bay where we went up a little river. So we’re watching the tides carefully.

We just watched the high-high tide go by. We’re having our high-highs in the evening time so far and of course, it’s progressing about 45 minutes every day. 

The tide is doing a really big part of this trip in terms of where we can go, where we can stay, and what we think about.

Today it prevented us- a lowering tide made us have to go around a little island group rather than right along the coast because we didn’t happen to be there at the correct tide. There was no chance to ever be there at the correct tide given how the tides were but we were hoping it would let us through. 

It would have been another episode of The School of Drag if any of you happen to have seen my video of Mark on the Adlatok River where he had to do some kayak portaging. Marion and I did some canoe portaging on that trip.

Anyway, it was sunny.

It was beautiful.

There was wind, there were waves, there was an amazing morning light and an even more amazing evening light. We’re hoping that tomorrow is the same.

So I hope you had a great day and we’ll catch you tomorrow.

Bye.

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