After a wet night we awoke to a misty morning. All of our stuff was wet, so after hanging up stuff to dry and packing up, we headed off, slightly damper than before. Chris wanted to cook breakfast on the raft, so he pulled out his stove and began making sausages and pancakes with Julia. The sausages were great, but the pancakes kept sticking to the pan. Note: always bring vegetable oil if you plan to make pancakes!
We spent the rest of our day swimming, navigating, paddling, reading, chatting, pulling the raft along the shallows, looking at clouds, and joking around. Even though dark clouds teased us along the horizon, we were lucky enough to avoid any thunderstorms today. Today was the most relaxing day of our trip. The public islands we were seeing so frequently began to end around 5:00 pm, so we decided to head in early and camp on a public island instead of risk getting thrown out of a private island in the middle of the night.
We ended up camping on a very habitable island the second night. We certainly weren’t the first people to camp on that island, and were able to take advantage of the camping area previous campers had set up. After a quick round of slinging practice, it was time to make a fire and cook dinner. Dinner this time was chicken curry. Dinner was delicious, and after a short firewood-gathering break it was time to make s’mores. After some riddles and a few good conversations, we all looked up and saw the stars. There were so many! We spent a good part of the night staring at the stars (pretending we knew what constellations we were looking at), and spotting shooting stars before going to bed. We even saw the Milky Way. What a magical night!
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