In article , William R. Watt wrote:
I'd get the biggest tent you can carry in your kayak.

It can be darn difficult to find a place for an oversized tent.
Sometimes you are lucky to find any flat area suitable for one man to
sleep on. Oversized tent would be the worst thing ever on places like
these:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/timo.noko/bellabe1.jpg
http://www.kolumbus.fi/timo.noko/kasa.jpg