We left Vancouver on Saturday, June 10, overnited in Secret Cove and enjoyed a fabulous evening with John and Nancy at their stunning home at Red Roofs ....

Fast forward to Father's Day and we are now impatiently sitting in Port McNeil, waiting for a good weather window to cross the appropriately named, Cape Caution.

There have been 6-8 foot swells come from the west that are closely spaced (7-10 seconds) that would hit us on our port side which can be uncomfortable.

Tuesday looks better with 4 foot swells at 7-8 seconds so we’ll get up early and make the dash across. From there to Prince Rupert we are pretty well in protected waters (Inside Passage) so we don’t have to worry so much about what waves the ocean is generating.

We’ll run every day and should get in to Prince Rupert on Saturday where we’ll meet up with the Fishers aboard Daybreak.

They are bringing their boat down from Wrangell, Alaska having run it up there earlier this spring.

Our plan is to stay two nights there and then make the run to Masset on the north end of Haida Gwaii but we’ll see what Mother Nature has to say about that plan.

One of our stops en route to Pt McNeill was the Blind Channel Resort in the Broughtons which has been owned and run by the Richter family since 1970.

It is charming spot with the beautiful CEDAR POST Restaurant, where we enjoyed a fabulous dinner - complete with a bottle of Veuve (compliments of our kids who had arranged that very special surprise for us).

                     

  There is a short hike into the woods behind the resort, to a gigantic cedar tree ...

The trip has been good so far.

The boat is running well and the weather has been decent although not very warm. 

There is always interesting things happening along these waterways like this log-dumping barge full of logs and this fish processing plant being towed up to Alaska to process this summers catch.

While heading north, we saw this beautiful 1959 trawler called CURVE OF TIME.   For decades, she has travelled both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, then became an environmental awareness vessel for Greenpeace.  She has more recently been converted to an ecotourism vessel which runs tours up our Pacific West Coast and up into Alaska ... all yours for $750 per day per person!!!