Wednesday, MAY 10.

We both were woken up at about 12:30 am by some violent rocking of the boat, It must have been a cruise ship passing by in Discovery Passage, one of the 224  cruise ship trips this summer up the B.C. COAST to Alaska. Fortunately, I had put all the dishes away or they would have been strewn all over the galley.

This is the cruise ship that passed us last year, same spot as this year.

We had an easy morning and left around 9:45 to catch the ebb tide towards Seymour Narrows.  We had travelled through the Narrows last year, so were not too anxious to go through them again this time, despite the many warnings about crossing these Narrows near or at slack tide in all the Marine Guides. Our good friend Ed, who is a fisherman, had just told us the other day that one can easily cross 2 hours before or after slack. So, we decided to give it a go and crossed 1 ½ hour before slack tide so we could catch some more ebb current after the Narrows. It turned out to be an easy crossing and we became the object of many photographers who were travelling in 3 whale watching boats next to us. Since there were no whales in the Narrows our sailboat became the next exciting thing to view and take pictures off.

seymour-narrows-Chris-Corrigan-flickr

Check out this video of the largest non-nuclear explosion in Seymour Narrowss; https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c3c_1373089619

We have been in constant touch via phone messenger with our fellow travellers, Mejan and Bert on the s.v. Curtsy, who had left a week earlier. We found out that they had left Kanish Bay, just north of Seymour narrows, that morning at 6:00am to catch the current to go to Port Neville off Johnstone straight. We decided that we would try to join them there that night. And after travelling 8 hours in calm seas, sometimes fighting the current, travelling at 2.2. knows, we met up with them around 5:45 p.m., in Port Neville, a beautiful Bay, surrounded by large mountains, some covered with snow, with no other boats or human beings around. We anchored in 20ft of water and enjoyed a lovely chicken dinner, listening to the sound of the bird and later to the sound of the rain.

Below see picutres of our meeting up with Mejan and Bert in Port Neville. The early morning picture of our boat was taken by Mejan.