Aug.5. Now; it sure is still dark at 5 am. At the end of June at Glacier Bay Alaska it was light by 2am. Where does the time go? I double checked the tides and then the marine forecasts and what was happening out the window. It looked good to go. Pi out for a quick beach potty, secured everything in the boat, had breakfast, anchor pulled and out of Bull Harbour at 6;30am under cloudy skies with little wind and the end of a helpful ebbing tide. 4 sailboats at anchor and one big cruiser at the dock were all still snoozing. Guess they weren’t either planning on going south around the Cape or were waiting for better conditions? Did they know something I didn’t? Apparentlly not. The Wagner Cruising Guide was very helpful in navigating both the Nahwitty Bar and Cape Scott. Nahwitty Bar was mostly avoided by going in close to shore. We were quick through the area of The Bar because of the helpful ebbing tide and only experienced about 15 minutes of roughish seas. From The Bar to Cape Scott was relatively quick and easy. There were many recreational fishing boats en route and more water birds than I had seen since the Juneau and Glacier Bay waters. We didn’t arrive at Cape Scott at exactly slack tide, as suggested in The Wagner. We had to endure about an hour of confused roughish seas. It was even too rough for Laurence to work or live below decks which was unusual. Still though; the box of Gravol was not opened as it has not been so far on this voyage. Once around the Cape; it was about 2 hours of easy motoring to our next protected anchorage at Sea Otter Bay Provincial Marine Park. Actually there was 4 Dept. Of Fisheries mooring buoys in the Bay. We took advantage of one of them and had an early bed time after of course a few drams of celebratory rum, HH, and a quick quesadilla dinner.
The traditional drams of rum for rounding Cape Scott. Pi got a few drops of rum on some kibble.
