Placentia Bay 2015: Finishing the trip in Monkstown

We got the forecast from the folks in Southeast Bight the evening before.  A tropical storm was on the way.  Our timing was spot on.  On the last day of our 7 days in Placentia Bay we were in Channels Harbour, 13 kms from Monkstown where we had dropped a vehicle.  We'd be off the water and home and dry before the storm hit.

The morning was calm.  There was even a table left by cabin owners that I used to make breakfast.

Channels Harbour is an inlet off of Paradise Sound.  Out through here and a right hand turn and we were ...

... off paddling north in Paradise Sound.

Paradise Sound is a 30 km long, narrow arm of the sea running north without a lot of diversions to occupy the mind.  Dean and Terry charged ahead.  I decided I'd just settle into a relaxed paddle rate of 30 per minute and let them go without worrying about keeping up

The shore changed very ...

... little.

Eventually, 13 kms later I spotted a bump out in the straight coast.  I knew Monkstown lay just beyond.  Around the bump I spotted the first signs of the town.  Usually the dories are white but someone, maybe Lukey, had panted his green.

I passed by a traditional looking fishing stage, then the homes along the shore and ...

... beached not long after Dean.

Here's the complete journey viewed in Google Earth:

The day was a short paddle of 13 kms.  It had to be as we had to, first, take the vehicle dropped here back to Davis Cove where we put-in six days before to retrieve the others, second, unload and pack the gear into the cars and, third, stop for our usual meal of fish & chips before the almost three hour drive home.

A short day on the final but a not too shabby 120 for the trip; two short days forced on us due to wind.  It was a most enjoyable trip highlighted for me by the two churches we saw at St Kyran's/St. Leonard's and by the paddle into Toslow.

Now, where are my maps so I can start contemplating next year's trip?