July 31. It was another rainy day but the winds were not too bad or predicted to be worse than about 5 or 10 knots in Queen Charlotte Strait. The rain was supposed to abate later in the day. We decided to get a 6 am start and had the tide with us for the first 3 hours or so. We finally saw some orcas just before the jump across the strait from Cape Caution. It was a pod of about 6 or 7 and they hung around a drifting SeaScape, tail and fin slapping for about 10 minutes. Unfortunately; it was starting to get quite rough and was raining fairly hard so we did not get any good pictures. It was quite rough into a headwind for about 2 hours and we were all starting to feel a bit queezy and not too hungry but after that at about noon it started to settle down and we had some lunch while we drifted. We got into Clam Cove on an island just north of Port Hardy ( our next resupply destination) at about 2:30 pm. We had been there on the trip north and new it to be a quiet secure anchorage. Although it was dogable it was not crabable.
