(photo by Bob: 2006-07-07 - explore)
Resting
The paddle from McManus Lake to the bottom of Five Mile Rapids in Algonquin Park (see yesterday's post) and return is a reasonable day's expedition. But we usually do this trip a little later in the season when the flow in the Petawawa is lighter. On Friday we found the upstream paddling between Smith and Whitson Lake to be quite "challenging".
On the return trip (downstream) through this section, the gps indicated we were traveling at almost 12 km/hr. I would therefore estimate that the current was at least 5 or 6 km/hr. -- maybe more. No wonder we were tired.