June 7, 2017

A reasonably slow morning this morning as we read email and then walked the docks to say "see you later" to John and Judy on Stella Maris. We left around 9:15 and had a lovely ride down Clio Channel, and had just a bit of swirly water in Baronet Passage. But as we approached Johnstone Straight, we could see white caps. We gave a lot of distance to the point as we entered, but it was still really lumpy. As we started up the Straight, we couldn't help but complain - the forecast for both Johnstone Straight and Queen Charlotte Straight was winds light, with it coming up to NW 15 in the late afternoon. So here we are in the Straight with 22 kts of wind coming from the South East behind us! AND, it was supposed to be Ebbing and going with us the whole way, but No, we were going into about a 1-2 kt flood. Are we the only ones that read these things!

It calmed down after we passed Alert Bay, and of course it was less than 5 when we tied up at the dock, so we survived. But it really pisses me off Steve Jackman was there to take our lines and have a chat, and we met Luc as well. We had some lunch and then filled up with fuel so that it was done. We filled up to the tippy top so that we were nice and heavy for going around the corner. Then we took Bella for a walk into town but she was not that excited about walking. So instead Greg had ice cream and I had a coffee at "Mugz" on the patio. From there over to the Sporting Goods store to buy some last minute fish killing things just in case we catch a fish someday.

Dinner on the boat and a generally early evening.