We were pretty sore and hurting units in the morning and neither of us slept all that great. When you roll over on a sunburn it isn't pleasant. So we got a bit of a late start at 9:30.
We ended up paddling until 11:30 and stopped for a short break on a rocky beach camp with water feeding out of a tributary from a log jam.
The kaykers caught up and passed us so we followed them down to the end of Isaac Lake and the pullout for the Chute. We had previously decided to portage the whole way past the chute and not run it (you have a choice).
It was a beast of a portage. VERY large rocks and roots protruding. We put in at the river and had a rough go getting down to the Isaac Falls pull out. I completely froze going down a particularly rough patch. We came close to tipping but Kels kept it together, kept us on a good path and righted us. We made it to the pull out before the falls. After a short break we portage a final tough one and made it to camp 30 at the bottom of Isaac Falls. We decided we had enough and were camping there for the night. We pulled the canoe all the way into the campsite and setup camp about 4pm. Another canoe came down about an hour later with a father (70's) and son (30's) team. They shared stories and some garlic bread and we shared some coconut pineapple loaf. Because the river falls were right there and VERY chilly we did a quick camp wash down behind our tent and went to bed and watched another movie. Well half of it anyway.
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