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Great day today constantly surrounded by chattering birds, impressive cliffs and volcanoes. The wind picked up behind us and we encountered some confused breaking waves halfway across Chugul pass- our first tidal race, definitely not our last! It's neap tides right now but with only 15 knots of wind it was feisty enough. A good distance covered too, 22 miles over 7.5 hours. The sails helped with that and are fun to use. 

We started kayaking today at 1pm waved on by locals including the school kids. The wind was gentle and the sun came out giving us a great start. We crossed our first pass between Islands close to slack water with no problems. Our kayaks are really heavy with 3-4 weeks food and landing at lunchtime on a gravel beach with small but surging surf was tricky. Landing spots are few and far between on these rocky volcanic Islands and tonight we landed up a rocky river and awkwardly carried the kayaks onto a ledge. it was 6pm, Sarah was tired and we didn’t think there would be a good landing for at least a couple of hours. Now we’re well fed, looking forward to an early night and hoping for more good weather.

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It was a beautiful but tough walk over rivers, across bogs, through snowdrifts, up and down and up and down.