Happy Mother's Day! We left Campbell River after spending a day shopping. DANGEROUS! We met another boat headed to Alaska. This guy was a wealth of information as he has been to Alaska 12 of the last 14 years! Lives in Seattle and keeps his boat in Campbell River and goes to Alaska every year.
We spent Sunday on a glorious cruise up Johnstone Straits. We know Johnstone Straits have quite a reputation but we had favorable light winds and sunny skies. At times it was downright hot!! We went through Seymour Narrows at slack water under blue skies.
The scenery was breakthtaking!
It was such an easy ride that we decided to go further than we had originally planned and anchored at Growlers Cove. As soon as we anchored, of course, Molly needed to go to shore. So Jon went in search of a place to land the dinghy, which wasn't easy. He finally found a place (kind of) and then it started to rain. But it turned out to be a very nice anchorage.
A little local color. We passed this boat at about Alert Bay on our way to Port Hardy. Clearly homemade!
We woke up Monday morning to rain but had a relatively short trip today from Growlers Cove to Port Hardy. Winds from the SE and pretty light. But it has rained all day. Tomorrow we'll make the trip across Queen Charlotte Straits to the BC coast. We have light SE winds forecast so we're going to take advantage of it.
Not sure when we'll have wifi again. The northern BC coast is pretty remote but these days you never know. We'll keep taking pictures and post when we can.
Big Howdy to Mike Cunningham as we see your sister boat here in Port Hardy.
Now I see where our old docks went - Port Hardy.
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