We left Klemtu with a favorable weather report (except for the fog which didn’t last very long) and decided to take on Milbanke Sound where I got me butt kicked on the way up. Well, that lasted about three miles, or until the swells reached about eight feet and a little too steep. Ginger didn’t much like that and I didn’t either. We reversed course and headed for Oscar Passage to take the much more protected inside route to Ivory Island. This route is very interesting in a lot of ways. At one point we transited a narrow point against 5kts of current. That is a lot when your boat only goes 7kts.
Once inside Reid Passage we saw a humpback whale in 20 to 30 feet of water! There is something amazing around every corner.
The water smoothed out and the run past Bella Bella to Shearwater put on another 50nm. As happens quite often, we were the smallest cruising boat in the harbour.
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