After being trapped on shore most of the day, the wind started subsiding at about 8PM. By 8:30 PM I was on the water paddling North. For once it was easy to make progress, even an easy stroke ate up the miles. I hadn’t gone very far when I saw a large yellow-brown animal shambling on the shore. It would disappear into the bushes and then re-emerge. At first I thought it was yet another bear, likely a grizzly this time given the coloration, but then I realize that my sense of scale was completely wrong. It was a giant porcupine, the size of a medium dog. When I went in close, he scampered up a tree and chattered his teeth at me.; I stayed long enough to get a photo, but then decided I had stressed him out enough and went on my way into the evening. #lostinthebarrens