Day 2 Bear beach to Chin beach

It's ok we're used to the rain, being British... But trekking in it all day up the unrelenting steep ravines into muddy creeks was something else!

We managed 11.5 km today in 8 hours and it was the hardest trek I have ever done. My pack was much better today, not sure whether I just packed it better or having eaten some rations made it lighter!
The highlight of the day was the makeshift wooden bridges over the creeks; seeing seals playing in the ocean and the most enormous cedar trees reaching high into the sky.

We reached the emergency shelter at high tide so decided to make camp before our legs gave way!
What the guidebook doesn't say about Chin beach is the massive rats. We were joined at 1am by 'Roland' the shelter rat who kept us awake trying to climb over our stuff. He disappeared at about 3am when a loud scratching and growling sound came from outside the hut. It  was a cougar. As there was no secure doorway Jenny and I retreated to the highest bunk and left Roland to his fate ( he was ok in the morning).