Day #4 - New Lake to Cape Blanco - Second Day Walking

Day two of walking was pretty amazing.  Sam is our new hero!!  While we all worked very hard, he dug deep to allow us to get 8 km further than planned which is going to allow us an easy 10 km day tomorrow.  Good job, Sam!!

We got up around 7:00, but are still a little rusty with our morning cleanup, so did not get on the trail until 9:30.

The first 8 km or so were on loose sand which is not easy on the legs, and makes for slow walking.  At this point we needed to find a trail that left the beach and took us up onto the cliffs at Blackrock Point.  Luckily we ran into a lady from Three Hills, Alberta who pointed us in the right direction. What????  True story.  We couldn't believe it.  We were then off the beach for about 4 km on hard trail and it felt awesome.  What a relief.  At about 12 km we made the decision to continue to the further location.  This brought us back down to sand for 2 km, followed by 4 km of hard sand (Yahoo!!!), then 2 more km of trail to our camping spot for the night.

Break Time

Almost There!

We are right on the beach now, about 50 m from the water.  We pulled in around 7:30 and all rested our feet for a bit.  We then cooked up some grub, which we ate while watching the sun set.  There is nobody else on the beach, so we have it all to ourselves again.  It is truly unreal.

Good things from today:

Beautiful scenery

Section of hard sand

Trail walking

Sunset on the beach

Bad things from today:

Blisters

Chafing

Sore feet

Spilt some camp stove fuel on my pack

New things we saw:

A broken up freezer on the beach

What I forgot to mention yesterday:

Ty's denture cracked so he is walking around with a missing tooth - going to the dentist again, Jenni!!

That's about it for today.  Everybody is asleep, and I am about to be.  Thanks for reading again!