Cape Jones

Restless Viking Radio — Season One, Episode Eight

Part 5 of the Cape Jones Saga

We’re camped on the rocks at Longue Pointe with ten people, freighter canoes below us, and a simple problem: we need two boats, and we have one.

At 6:30 in the morning, Jimmie shows up early.

Wind’s right. Tide’s right.

We go now.

What follows is a long, cold run up the coast of James Bay—threading islands, reading water by inches, standing for hours in the bow—toward a place that doesn’t announce itself and doesn’t promise anything.

This episode isn’t about arrival.

It’s about permission, patience, and the quiet competence of a man who doesn’t explain himself.

Cape Jones felt like an ending.

It wasn’t.