Day 10 – Back on the river

We get up early around 6 am as we are well rested and leave quite early as well . It’s a beautiful morning.

Ever been out there on a river or a lake in the morning? I love this morning paddling when everything is calm, even the water does not seem to move.

Perfect paddling – the colours are just amazing…

We stop at a confluence with a small creek – you might guess for what – fishing of course…

…and with success – two salmons for dinner.

We decide to paddle a little bit further before stopping for lunch.

Nice place for lunch – still really hot weather.

It seems that owls here do not know that they are supposed to be active at night…this time we are even able to take a picture. Initially there were two, but one flew off before the picture.

The landscape changes a bit in this part. The river flows quite straight and is not as wide as before. The banks are relatively small and steep. At some point it’s even a little bit like a canyon (ok not really but compared to the rest of the river for sure). No good camp so we move forward.

The current is swifter as well now – this is actually comfortable 😉 (We just stopped to have a look where it’s ok, with low water levels we do want to make sure where to pass).

The mountains are farer away now, but the scenery is still great.

When we reach the confluence with Malamute Fork we decide to take our canoes up the river as according to Peter’s maps there should be some nice camps there and what’s more the river is crystal clear.

We do find a really nice camp site.

Before settling in we explore our surroundings and cross the river to the other side to see whether there is a lake or it’s just a field – (it seems like there is a lake when water level’s are higher).