Day of the rapids!

We left camp at 6am and headed straight for the chute and roller coaster on Isaac lake.  The actual rapids were great fun and it was nice to have a change of water flow that actually helped us head down stream rather than paddling on still water (or into a headwind).

As we headed down towards the log jam at McLeary lake. You have to be careful here to prevent the canoe from filling with water and potentially overturning. 

There was a really hard portage by the Isaac River falls but a good chance to take a breather and take photos of the waterfall before continuing on to McLeary lake, another portage and then Lanezi lake and finally Sandy lake.

We stopped at 10am for a well-deserved porridge breakfast and coffee.

The weather was awful all day and so much of our energy was concentrated on just carrying on paddling. We were all cold, soaked and exhausted when we reached the beautiful campsite on Sandy lake (Camp 34).

Sitting round the campfire we all dried clothes out (socks pushed on to sticks and trousers hung off an obliging tree). We all headed off to bed early as we were shattered from paddling for 11 hours!