Big Bay was a beautiful, fun stop with lots of birds, seals and sea lions.
In the morning we made breakfast on the boat and I took advantage of the shore power to bake a pan of lasagna.
We left a little before high water slack at 11:30. It was smooth sailing through Dent Rapids with only a few little whirlpools remaining. We motored through rainy Cordero Channel admiring the tall, solemn mountains and continuing to marvel at the depths of most of our passages. Sea bottoms can plummet to 900' deep only a hundred yards off shore!
Our next obstacle was Greene Point Rapids and although we arrived at max ebb, it was only 3.7 knots and in our favor. Impatience to be on our way won out and so we went through. There were quite a few whirlpools, some of them pretty big, and I had to steer carefully to miss swirling logs. Whirlpools spun around us and sent us on a ride like a tilt-a-whirl, making the boat lean one way then flopping over the other way, but the boat always righted itself and soon we were through.
As we passed Loughborough Inlet we turned off the engines and floated downstream. We made lunch and Alden made a symbolic gesture at fishing. We saw a pod of porpoises fishing nearby but had no luck ourselves.
Whirlpool Rapids lay ahead and we had these rapids timed just right for slack water. It was a rainy but calm trip down to Johnstone Strait. Heavy weather awaited us here. Gail warnings were in effect but the winds were with the current so we chanced it and headed out. The rain and swells made for a bit of excitement, but we knew our good ole Jack wouldn't fail us!
We pulled in to Port Neville for the evening and hoped for fairer weather the next day. We had quite a bit of current in our anchorage at the inlet of the bay, but our Rancor anchor held firm and we slept well. This made our 10th night, we're already 10% of the way through our trip!
Our evening amusement.
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