Day 2

Left Pike Bay 7:30am, arrived Bastion Island 2:30pm.

Calm waters until inlet to Bastion, around 2pm.

A fast breakfast so we could get on water before winds picked up. Morning paddle calm, through blue waters. A group was camped on one of the other islands that we passed.

Stopped at Horseshoe Island provincial camp site for 2nd breakfast. Numerous short Saskatoon berry bushes (12", 30cm) but too early in the season for berries. View from here spectacular, with ducks swimming just off shore. A few bugs.

As we paddle through the rest of the morning we passed through a string of islands. We followed the straightest path through, hoping to make some distance for the day. We saw a caribou and pair of dive-bombing terns us and the caribou on an island before Janus Point. Paddling along the right hand side of the island the water was a spectacular teal color that simmered in the sun.

We did not stop at Janus Point but we could see it's a sheltered camp site an used by lots of paddlers. We stopped just past the Janus Point camp on a really small island for a pee break. Our first real full view of the glacier and the valley. The water from Janus Point to Griffith Island was a spectacular steel blue.

Lunch just past Griffith Island on the mainland. Hot, sunny, bug free. Lay down for a nap but ended up just resting instead.

Bastion Island provincial camp site is nestled on gravel and treed narrow spit between two rocky cliffs. It was to imagine the not too distant past when they were islands. It would be simple to move campsite from one side to the other depending on prevailing wind of the day. We took the easy portage to the other side instead of paddling around.

Windy overnight with scattered showers. It was very buggy despite the wind and made it difficult to sit down and eat or even pack up. (Stopped again on the way back, the wind was down, and bugs even worse.)