We woke to socked in fog yesterday morning in Troup Narrows, so we decided that since our cruise up Roscoe Inlet promised spectacular scenery, we’d wait for the fog to burn off before heading out. We ended up pulling the anchor around 11am. Roscoe Inlet definitely does not disappoint. Sheer granite cliffs and giant domes, towering peaks, beautiful fjord atmosphere…it’s a lot like cruising up Tracy or Endicott Arm…even Ford’s … Read more
We left Kent Inlet on Thursday morning as the fog was clearing…another beautiful day so far! We cruised a slightly longer day (39nm) to Rescue Bay, where we put a couple crab traps down. A little later, we saw a green-hulled Selene approaching from Jackson Narrows…could it be Scott on Impulse? Yes it could! Awesome! So we chatted with him and his friend Tracy and made a plan to cruise … Read more
I set the alarm for 6am this morning, thinking we’d get an early start, but it was still fully dark (oops) at 6am, so we snoozed and left at 7am instead. We had a beautiful cruise down the east side of Campania Island (Squally Channel, not squally today) into Campania Sound and Caamaño Sound before tucking into Racey Inlet and cruising all the way to the head of the bay … Read more
We left Foggy Bay around 6am on Friday and had perhaps the most chill crossing of Dixon Entrance ever. It’s possible that due to it being our 18th (!!!) crossing we’re a little more chill ourselves, but it was SO so calm and felt quite short! We saw quite a few different groups of whale spouts in the distance as we approached Dundas Island. Look how calm these conditions are! … Read more
Up again at 4am (okay 4:30am) to check the 4am forecast and conditions for a Dixon Entrance crossing today. The Dixon Entrance East forecast for today looked about the same as last night: Last night at 7pm Green Island was reporting 5ft moderate, and the wind at Grey Islet was SSE 25kts. We were hopeful that things would mellow overnight. This morning, conditions seemed to have improved, except we were … Read more
We left Lowe Inlet this morning at 7am after a very windy night at anchor and not a great amount of sleep. We turned north in Grenville Channel and had a couple knots of current against us for the first few miles, that eventually tapered off, as did the rain and gray skies. We had originally planned to go to Kelp Passage today to stage our crossing of Dixon Entrance, … Read more
Today was an early one and a long one. We departed Khutze Inlet at 6am for the 55nm cruise up to Lowe Inlet. It was gray and rainy the entire time, but the wind and waves were on our stern all day (as was the current!) so we had a very calm cruise and arrived about an hour before we thought we would! Most of our day looked about like … Read more
We pulled up anchor in Bottleneck Inlet this morning at 7am and headed out into Finlayson Channel for a four-hour cruise up to Khutze Inlet — one of our favorite anchorages on the northern BC coast. We wanted to arrive at Khutze early enough to leave us with plenty of time to explore. We had favorable current the whole way, and dropped anchor around 11am. It was a beautiful, sunny … Read more