June 9, 2017

Ugh. Meh. Long day. We left at 5:30am and got to Fury Cove around 1:00pm. Everything went well really, but we spent quite a few hours with a following sea and doing the whole corkscrew thing. We had the wind and the sea behind us coming up Queen Charlotte Straight, crossed through the Walker Group (calm) to the other side, and then had the large swell coming towards us, but the Ebb and wind behind us for awhile. Coming around Cape Caution was the same thing - it certainly qualified as big ocean water. And it all lasts until the entrance into Fury Cove. The wind was down pretty much the whole day which was nice. Greg thought it was our best crossing conditions so far. I thought they were good, but the swell's were the biggest so far, but as you want them to be, spread far apart.

With only about half an hour to go, we spotted a "log" that seemed to have all these birds sitting on it that I needed to steer around. Greg commented that it was nice that there were all those birds on it because otherwise we probably wouldn't see the log as it was partly submerged. As we got closer, it wasn't a log, but a raft of otters!!! Our first sea otters ever! So unbelievably cool. Even though it was lumpy out, we stopped to get photos of course.





I turned the boat around to get more photos, but they just dove and disappeared. They didn't want to play. So turned around again and continued on. Greg had a really large lens on his camera and these are heavily cropped - but hey! You got otters!

We anchored in the cove and then had lunch and then Greg had a short nap while I looked at guide books. It got sunny so we went to shore in the dinghy. The shore is a white shell pieces and Bella was not interested in walking on it at all. We cruised over to the tidal pool, and to look around and ending up trying to get photos of the marmots that live there! So cute!



It started to drizzle so we headed back to the boat in the rain, and then stayed inside while we had a complete downpour for about 30mins. Then the sun came out again and it was warm, so it was most certainly "oh-beer-thirty" on the flybridge. Spaghetti dinner and a TV show and to bed early!