July 26, 2017

Checked the weather again this morning, and the Canadians have done a complete reverse on their weather prediction. Thursday morning is fine, but then the wind comes up in the afternoon and now Friday and Saturday and Sunday are complete blow outs! The Americans are in violent disagreement. The GRIB files show that Thursday is OK and Friday morning is OK but then starts to build from there. So now we're thinking we'll go all the way on Thursday.

Weather turned for the worse here too. It poured all night and was still raining in the morning. It stopped eventually though and we walked over to Safeway to get some provisions (mostly for the crossing) and then went and got some ice at Tongass Marine. Back to the boat and had some lunch. Then we decided to go downtown, but we stopped at "the mall" at a hair dressing salon so that I could get a "bang trim". Keep the hair out of my eyes! Then we hopped on the free downtown shuttle and went into town. Walked around, had coffee and a scone, went to the museum. Place emptied out again as the cruise ships left.

Back to SB for showers and dinner - had to eat up all our veggies that we can't take into Canada. We did a pretty good job! Met our new neighbours, Mac et al on Harmony, who are also apparently thinking of crossing tomorrow. Greg filled the water tanks and it's pouring. The weather really got worse and it's blowing 15kts in the harbor. Took the garbage up tonight before heading into Canada - Quote: "It's fucking miserable out there!".