Last night as a minke whale cruised around the May in front of us, Larry said he’d been communicating with his wife about flights home. There’s not many flights from main to Goose bay or from goose bay onwards so we had to make a decision about when we want to fly home. We measured distances, looked at forecasts and made a plan to cover the last 110km over three days, arriving in Nain on 19th and starting the journey home on 21st.

Today on the water had a slightly different feel to it now we’ve got a target and have started to plan the end of a great adventure. We launched into another great calm sea just before 7am. After a 6km crossing in Smokey haze, we paddled alongside the towering granite mountains of the Kiglapait range. They rise steeply from the ocean to almost 1000 metres helping keep us focused on the journey. We had lunch on some gently sloping rock slabs on the sheltered side of a tiny island before heading around the Tikkegaksuak peninsula to Village bay. The wide ankle of the boot shaped promontory was a giant flat topped sand dune, that had partly been taken over by dark green vegetation. It seemed out of place after the steep mountains of the day although it was no less beautiful. We paddled 9km around the isthmus to the other side and landed at another cabin, one that a previous expedition had stayed at. Dark rain clouds gathered above as we pulled ashore on a golden Sandy beach. Rain started to fall as we carried out things up to the cabin. We’re grateful for the roof over our head to cook and eat in the dry and to avoid night watch again. While there are far fewer polar bears as we get further south, there could still be one around so we don’t want to let our guard down. Another minke was blowing peaceful in the bay as Frank did the washing up. 48km today, about 65km to nain over the next two days.