For I am the only one out here defending my soul. Day 4 Bucked a bit of a headwind all day and stayed pretty close to shore because it was extremely white out further. Saw two bears, both black, on the way up. I'm sleeping with bear spray and flares right next to me on the sand but the bears around here probably don't see too many humans and the probability of running into a conditioned individual is extremely low. Caught some cod today but lost three of the four because I have a hard time prying the hook loose from them.
Hard woman goes squeamish with a little fishy.
Oh well, all I needed was one anyhow. Feeling incredibly isolated, especially in the evening, like now, also feeling a lot tired. The eagles look like judges sitting up in the trees. Murelets, auklets, eagles, cormorants, seagulls, puffins, dowitchers, sandpipers. I should have brought a bird book.