Day 3 21.24 Rosa Island, Nuchatlitz
We made it to the Nuchatlitz! Finally. Got on the water at 11 again today. Kinda slow. There was sunshine & I didn't even need my paddling jacket for a while. We left Esperanza and crossed to Nootka Island, then rounded the northern tip of Nootka & kept going.
The winds picked up a lot after an hour or so, and we really had to fight them for a long time. The water was whitecapping, and we also had the current against us. I was pretty tired & sore from yesterday, so didn't have a lot of power today. I was dehydrated, too, & had a headache that kept getting worse & worse.
Sarah got really hungry before Garden Point, so we stopped at a random little beach w/a creek & made lunch. It started raining hard, & the tide started coming up fast too, so it was a rushed & not fun lunch. Good though -- bagels w/mayo mustard sprouts tomatoes cheese & avacado.
We pushed on until we got to Rosa Island around 4:30 or 4:45. We'd discussed going on to Catala, which would've been nice, but we wanted to have some time in camp & not another late night & rushed dinner.
Our evening was nice & relaxed. It's pretty here -- sandy beach & another one , & you can walk across the island to the other side where there's a different view & big driftwood logs & big anemones. There's spruce & cedar here, big ones.
3 people pulled up on our beach in a little motor boat. They're kind of funny, from Tahsis, older, 2 guys & a native lady who's quiet. The one guy anchored his boat & then got pulled in to the rocks by a rope on a big inner tube, b/c they don't have a dinghy.
We set up a great camp -- two solid tarps, Sarah's bivvy & my tent. I feel competent. This is our first taste of a little tiny bit of Quadrant II time [time to do things that are important but not urgent]. I'm going to read now -- White Slaves of Maquinna: John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture & Confinement at Nootka. The perfect book to read on this trip. God nat.
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