The trail mainly follows beaches and tidal shelves with small detours through the rocky headlands that have no such beach access. Through these detours is where the cruxes live by way of steep, rooty trails. These detours are really hyped up but if you have experience with hiking in any form above paved paths, its not a big deal, just take your time and watch your footing. The beach hiking is of course the best and underfoot can vary from fine sand, rock shelves to pebbles and most everything in between. One section has basketball sized rocks for about 1 K, which we really enjoyed hopping around on.
We wanted to take in the scenes and side trails so we didn't have a lot of ambition when it came to KM's. We would hike less then 10 K a day and enjoy the campsites in the afternoon, reading, making cocktails and taking naps. For us this was a vacation in the purest sense, mixing a bit of exercise with lots of relaxing with the intent to come back re-charged after long and sometimes stressful work stints for us both. We really enjoyed this hike and are still reveling in the scenery and moments shared. Some highlights were the wildlife in which we saw a black bear and lots of eagles, shore birds, crabs, snakes, wolf tracks, jelly fish and star fish, the beautiful camping along the way, always dictated by the availability of fresh water and the amazing sunsets.
For me it was a great chance to spend some quality time with Erin just living simply and taking in the area. As always, you learn more about someone in a week in the backcountry then years in an urban environment and I liked what I learned ;-).
The trail ends in the very historic Friendly Cove and a sailing aboard the also historic, Uchuck III, very cool. I will let the photos do the rest of the talking!
