70km of darkness, sunrise, and sunset (with Sam)

2302 愉景灣 

2328  迪士尼

2345 青州仔

0004  岩口石

0019  汲水門

0030  拐石

0108  長索咀  * * * took a long break, drifted half way back to Kwai Shek by 0127, made it back to 長索咀 by 0135

0324  東湧 green buoy ... held onto the buoy with my towline to prevent drift and rested until 0358

0428 東湧<-- landed to stretch and eat ... got very cold x_x  launched again at 0532

???  沙螺灣 * * * sunrise shortly after we left SLW

0745- 0858  Tai O  <--had breakfast and replenished  our sport drinks supply

0925  牙鷹角  * * * stopped for a long time to wash off the slime we picked up in Tai O

0945  青林角  

0959- 1008  雞翼角  <-- we stopped here for our final break before Lo Kei Wan

????  分流 

1200 - 1635  籮箕灣  <-- landed to sleep... z z zzzz

1821 - 1830  二浪  Drifted back rapidly as we stopped to bail water @_@

1918 Nav Beacon 177

1924  蝦鬚排

1955  萬角咀

2059-2110  愉景灣 * * * I lost Sam as I entered the "pincher" of DB O_O  Good thing I am not a coach, I do have a habit of coming back with one less kayak, or one less paddler... @_@

We were sitting for so long, my but seriously ached by the time I reached Nav Beacon 177.  Also took me a long time to get into a comfortable cadence, but once I get it going, I feel like I can paddle forever.

The one thing I'm majorly impressed with is my cache memory ...  I don't believe it, but I forgot to bring a pencil and a clipboard, so I had to memorize our arrival times at each of the checkpoints, and I have to say, I didn't do too badly (despite being so sleep-deprived yesterday.)  Can't remember what time we arrived Sha Lo Wan and DB Marina though.

The biggest challenge for me this time is lack of sleep, as opposed to the brazen    sunshine in August (we slept through the hottest hours: 1200-1630).  Meant to get some sleep before we depart in the afternoon, but I had to clean up Taurus (another ant infestation, this time in the front hatch, which is nearly impossible to clean out), and I hardly get any sleep on Thursday night.