That's some good points. My main goal was to ensure the 10 major events of this area were completed over a week or more in what is a small area. The players will be given a heads up how I was expecting to play thru the area with each encounter having some exploration round the area before cutting to the next major encounter for the day. But I wanted to also not have them fully capable at the last emcounter for the day.

Clearly I need to rethink things.