It was a cool and rainy motor to Prince Rupert, but a short trip. This was the first real city we had seen since Nanaimo. We got groceries and ran some errands. We ate out at a great little sushi place, the first time we've been in a restaurant in a month.
The next day we headed out early, with high water, to make it through Venn Passage, a short but gnarly passage, twisting and full of obstacles and rocks.
Once out on open water we were surrounded by fog and often couldn't see any land. We had the radar and nav lights on for much of it. The visibility was so low that we saw several small planes flying very low, maybe 200 feet off the water.
The swell picked up crossing Dixon Entrance and we were only too happy to duck into Foggy Bay, making about 50 miles that day. We celebrated crossing into Alaska with some high fives. Astonishingly, Alaska had put together a welcoming committee, not to be outdone by Canada. As we neared our anchorage for the night two large humpbacks started breaching right in front of us! It was amazing. They got closer and kept up the action, spy hopping, slapping their tales, waving their fins, and launching out of the water to land with a big smack.
Dayne put the engines in neutral and we watched their antics, snapping lots of pictures. It was just the coolest thing. The nature documentaries (and our pictures) don't do justice to such an experience!
Later in the bay we were greeted by three black bear and a deer foraging on the shores (not together), also some fun tidal rapids in the dinghy.
Go Alaska!
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