Camping in Thunderstorms, Heavy Winds and Rain.

Morning, slept pretty good last night, quite a bit of mosquitoes around this morning like normal in the mornings and at night We're just getting ready and packed up and stuff. This barrel has been come has come in very handy Super happy with it. I got not too much food left We only have tonight and tomorrow night enough food still and plenty of room now in my buck in my barrel I can put things that I might need quickly instead of trying to get out my big bag like my rain jacket today because it's pretty overcast but then it creates up room in my bigger bag and it gets it lighter so I got my Shrew Farms beets you know the Shrew Farms beet mints Shrew Farms bed and breakfast you know and I've been able to put my cook gear in that barrel as well not have to worry about it in my big bag so I kind of like it even if I wanted I could stick my axe in there try and even out the the weight between my big bag and my barrel morning ritual of spraying down with musk all I like to spray it on my hat and instant relief for a little while well I was hoping to run this but there's no way check it out only above our skill set so happy to portage this one yet propane is my hobby on the porty walking on land I could be paddling but that's how it goes when And when you're with this frame, he wants to walk across the land again. This thing is a beast. I don't want to have him be in any kind of elevation and immediately have to slow it right down. There is a deal. I got it. Into the big lake and we'll have a kimi now. And Kyle's like, hey, Joe, why don't you go throw your line overboard? Cause well, I don't have one to throw. So you might as well throw it. I said, all right, I'll throw mine over. And then within like, I don't know what, two minutes, I even got a, oh, and then we lost him right at the bone. Well, we're on our last big, see, you're rubbing off on me. Yes, three more times, Albert. Well, here we are, we, well, Joe and I just completed, we're on the biggest lake we've been on, this is Wabaquimi Lake, and there's an expanse in front of us, it's the most we've seen, vista-wise, since we started. really see there's not too many contours around it's pretty pretty flat sandy soils helps with bugs you know but uh we're just making our way down to a series of campsites, did you see the one down there? It says good at the very bottom or big? Yeah, you want to head for that one or somewhere in the middle and whatever but oh, we got another couple hours or so we're all done with the rapids now, lots of fun. What do you think about the rapids, Kyle? I liked it because we didn't dumping any of them yet, still had... hey, we didn't dump bro and we still have fun, you're right here on all that rescue equipment for zero reasons. Yeah, well safety, Kyle, forget strikes again you know cautious Kyle and danger Joe over here, gruesome twosome if you had old blue, we got, we had some great, uh, you know, commentary too. I think my favorite line but where do we go? I don't know just go straight. Yeah, I don't know, just go straight this is what my spotter says, just go i don't know, just go, but yeah we but by the grace of god, did you die? Okay, but did you die though yeah, i know, touche touche, great trip, great trip so we might be uh finding our campsite here in the next couple hours like i said and uh yeah we relax a bit better but the words that mean things, we have the wind at our back, thank the lord because we thought we thought that it was gonna be against us, Kyle's saying wait five minutes and it might change, so or we're gonna round a bend or some craziness anyway this has been our life for the past five days how has yours been before portaging work and work uh at the beginning of this trip when we were planning on doing it i told kyle man we can do this thing but i can't carry the canoe i know i can't yeah no problem like there's not a lot of portage and whatever i'll carry it i can uh i know i can carry it like all right cool thanks man and then like he did the first one and as soon as he did the first one like as he's lifting it up i say if you can't carry it the whole way just let me know and i'll freaking just break out or whatever switch out and then just from then on we switched on left and right without or on and off without even really talking about it and it worked out I was able to by the end was able to pick it up easier than at the beginning at the beginning I probably failed three times trying to get up and Kyle had to help me next time I failed once and then got it up and then I was getting it up every time after that Kyle didn't have to help me get it up anymore I wasn't gonna say anything I could see your head shaking when I was saying it exactly I'm all your little Alan Grant freaking life will find a way safari toque hat not toque safari hat safari that's what i'm calling this thing from now on safari toque it's the old canadian safari toque anyway don't go into the long grass you know don't go into the long grass what's going on kyle oh yeah probably 20 minutes at least redesigned fishing poles and how you hate GoPros and will never buy it support their company again But maybe you'll wait till the 11 comes out and get that one all in the same breath. Yeah So what so great I can't Just this time all the other ones you kept calling it wabakini for the longest time yeah yeah just wait till you watch the back i put it in a different SD card this morning and uh it's doing a different type of messing up nice the best kind it's a day early how fast he dropped there slow oh like a glove like a glove we're gonna hit some crosswind here it's gonna it looks like a river it's moving so fast this pretty little area here I can't oh you tell the camera what's happening today just now basically it's a lovely camp very wide open spacious full of blueberries this Camp has the most blueberries of any camp we've had so far, which is good, and we're just watching the clouds move I'm wondering if it's gonna downpour, thunder or lightning. It is thundering quite a bit. Yeah, in the distance Not like on top of those things Man, I was just chilling, boarding the afternoon and it feels like the sun just moved. Yeah, it looks pretty dark Got a couple of things I think, oh wow, got some dirt right here. Just a little bit dirt right there So I have this black pepper salami. It's really good. Okay, you're a little close. Okay. Thank you Trying to tell the camera what I'm doing With this this is what I'm actually excited about. This is really good. Joe doesn't like this so more for me. That's fine This is Gouda the Gouda fan. This is Clarina vintage 36 month aged made in Netherlands Gouda. Nothing but the best It's pretty good, and it's not terribly expensive. I think this brick was okay. It's $19 a pound Maybe it's not it's not the cheapest thing but Joe and I have very differing opinions on what good cheese tastes like I think it's great. It's crunchy. Give me that baby bell, bro. So wrinkly Have you watched any of your videos from a while ago? No, is there a big difference? I'm starting to notice a difference for myself Yeah, go back and watch one of our first videos yeah yeah how long ago was it would have been 10 years ago yeah doing better than some though man I picture on Facebook the friends from high school someone warming up it's been thundering and threatening to rain for quite some time so it's starting to rain now i don't know if it'll last or not we'll hang out in the hammock for a bit we out you lots of thunder well i'm gonna have to look at the weather and see if this is going to keep up or what we might want to bail out tomorrow if that's the case i don't want to be stranded here again with kyle i'll look on the sat phone or on the inreach here in a bit rain's picking up it's picking up hell in true wild bikini form it's cleared up pretty nice out still windy but uh not raining 6 30 now i think i'm gonna get up we'll see what kyle's doing and uh maybe make some supper doing up some foods i got a beef stew by happy yak it's just on simmer right now it's gonna simmer for like maybe one more minute and then i'm gonna cover it up and it'll sit for 12 to 15. okay first bite oh my god the beef you're not happy with your yak huh i am an unhappy yak right now i am going to yak unhappily kyle well it's not a great evening to just go fishing i would say relaxing is not a word i'd using for this win it's a little windy yeah you can get about 20 paddle strokes and then one cast your lure would go the other way that you cast it the birds are basically stationary right now in the sky and i thought you were struggling he just freaking uh ferried over yeah but the rapid we were like we'll start right and then we'll go river left this river right and abandon that i don't know just battle harder straight just go straight well we're gonna make the most of this night it's gonna be our last night we are getting picked up tomorrow so chill out until it starts to dump on us retreating retreating well it's almost 8 in the morning our plane's gonna be here for around 11 or noon we have a few kilometer paddle into the wind so we're gonna head out here let's keep paddling surfing surfing wabakini these are the biggest waves we've been dealing with on the whole trip biggest lake so it makes windiest day. We're just tucked in this little bay for protection and a little bit of relief. My heart was pounding and my arms were shot so we need to go in again down here down to the campsite called Stonehenge where we're going to wait for our plane to pick us up. Lighting up swell sideways. Reminiscing to Woodland Caribou Kyle. The sky is darkening and we're getting Woodland Caribou vibes here. We'll see if this is a stranded round two. I'm trying to a little bit here and there, but. It just smells white. I like protective. We're getting close to some land here. We're gonna pull over and reassess and maybe we'll be able to just wait here for the plane because where we're supposed to get picked up is right over there, but it's a lot of wind and a lot of paddling, a lot of waves. These choppy ass waves, we're taking water. You can do it, buddy. couple feet here it's more of a ground-dweller girls I think it is his so he can