Day one at the lodge

Arrived at the lodge by 9:30 and were out on the water by 10:30......proud of ourselves at our efficiency! The water was challenging to say the least, but we had opted to have guides. Jen and Gwen, two young (ish) girls led the way. Some of the currents we likely would not have entered without their guidance as we had not experienced anything that resembled what we had previously paddled. As it turned out we were quite competent! 

We stopped for lunch, provided by the guides. Also in our group were a family of three from Spain, mum, dad and a very shy smiley 8 year old boy.  One of our guides, Jen, speaks fluent Spanish as she works a non profit in Nicaragua for part of the year. Her non profit is called The Latitude Project.

We started back to the lodge, making a big crossing back to Quadra. We had been past Reid and Maurelle Islands. The crossing was long and challenging but nothing we could not handle. Regardless we were all quite wet on our return and Joanie and myself headed for the showers....one solar which was cold as there had not been enough sun and the other was heated by other means...nice and warm...I was the lucky one in the warm one! 

The lodge is quite lovely, we have private rooms and shared bathrooms. There is a living room and kitchen on the top (third) floor of the lodge.

Joanie made dinner which we all enjoyed, spaghetti with two sauces, a spicy red and a white seafood. Gourmet snacks were provided before dinner by Sandy. We finished it all of with Joanie's Lacey cookies....which we also share with our Spanish friends. 

The rest of the kayakers staying here soon drifted off and we played  a game of Quiddler, before hitting our beds for the night.