Tuesday 24th June 2008

Here we are at Fort Chipewyan, Tony and I have just finished a meal at the local cafe, service was very quick.......there was just the two of us.

We're camped on a beautiful beach with glorious sand under our feet and not the mud that we've almost become accustomed to. The weather has been sunny, it's so nice to have after the last couple of days of cool and drizzle.The scenery is quite lovely and not unlike Albany in Western Australia.

We met a guy who lives in Fort Simpson, which is our next village after here. He said there's a barbeque happening on Saturday night and that we would be welcome along if we get there in time. Distance to there is approximately 200kms but we're heading onto the Slave River where we've got the big, long rapids (grade 4's and 5's) coming up on this section. I expect we'll be portaging and the last portage of 1.5 kms took us five and half hours!!!! Maybe the thought of a barbeque will inspire us to hasten up our portages.