Kayaking Trip I (planning)

We were originally thinking of going to San Francisco to visit Bear's Uncle, unfortunately (or fortunately) Canucks was playing in San Jose, it was impossible to go to California for less than $1000 per head.  After determining that we were not spending $2000 to go to San Francisco, we happily decided to join the Gulf Islands kayaking trip Deb and Andre were planning.

There were 6 of us in the group, Deb, Andre, Soroosh, Kevin, Bear and myself.  Because it's a long weekend, it was almost impossible to get on the ferry with a car without reservation.  We decided to only take one car, and Bear would do a combination of walking and busing.  The overall plan was:

Friday:  catch 8:35pm ferry to Salt Spring Island (ferry spot reserved), camp near Ganges
Saturday:  Launch our kayaks from Ganges, paddle to James Bay on Prevost Island
Sunday:  Paddle, Eat, Paddle, Eat, Paddle...
Monday:  Paddle back to Ganges, line up for the ferry from Salt Spring Island (Long Harbour, close to Ganges)  to Vancouver (since there was no reservation spot left), back up plan is to go to Southern part of Salt Spring Island (Fulford) to catch the non-reservable ferry to Vancouver Island then catch the ferry from Vancouver Island to Vancouver.

We planned for group of 6 meals.  Bear and I were responsible for one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner.  I have only been on one kayaking trip prior to this one, so I didn't have much idea as to what kind of food was appropriate for a kayaking trip.  Deb said it's somewhere between backpacking and car camping, by that she meant weight is not as much a problem, but it's important to remember to bring food that will keep without refrigeration.

We decided to bring our (famous??) homemade cinnamon bread, veggie omelet, and bacon for breakfast.  Homemade pizza was our favourite choice of lunch (feasible for any type of camping).  Bear suggested pork belly kimchi udon soup similar to what we did at our last winter trip, except we needed to somehow figure out how to make it not as deadly salty.

Thursday evening, Bear and I were busy preparing the kayaking trip meals.  Bear made the pizza dough, and a dough for cinnamon bread.  For some reason the bread dough didn't rise at all, so we had to buy some cheese scone to substitute for the bread.  We made Caramelized onion and prosciutto pizza.  I prepared (pre-cooked) all the veggies for the kimchi udon soup.  As for pork belly, I washed and washed it, then boiled it to get as much salt off as possible.