We arrived in Hebron early afternoon where we knew there are a few cabins including one owned by Noah, a kayaker from Nain. Rounding a headland into the bay, we saw a large white church and a cluster of cabins on a low hillside. As we eagerly headed in their direction a buzzing noise above startled me and I looked up to see a small drone flying low overhead. "There’s a boat", JF pointed, "and another one". As we landed, a woman with a rifle came to greet us. Belinda told us she is here from Nain for a week to rebuild a cabin from scratch. 4 men are laying down large plywood sheets for floorboards behind her. The previous building was her grandfather’s. She told us they’ve been bringing wood here for 3 years by boat, about a 6 hour ride from Nain. Yesterday there was a polar bear right by the house they are staying in. She points in the direction of Noah’s cabin and tells us to help ourselves to a beer from their fridge. We get another beer when we join them for an afternoon break and are given a password for their starlink wifi and a dinner invite for caribou ribs. My jaw dropped at a photo of an 8foot polar bear that Belinda shot 2 years ago. She looks tiny beside it.

Hebron used to be an Inuit village until the government relocated everyone. Now people visit to hunt and fish. A group of people are coming tomorrow to renovate the large church.

The paddle here was an easy going 34km into a light headwind under blue skies. It was hot for the first time and I regretted put 2 pairs of