Day 100: Boughey Bay to Thurston Bay

We made it to 100 days! What a trip this has been. Since we had to wait for a favorable current before leaving today’s anchorage, we used the time to celebrate our cruising milestone with a pancake breakfast. Laurie brought mimosas, so we could toast the occasion, and bacon, so—well, bacon.

The commemorative Day 100 Pancake

We also went out and picked up the crab pots Scott dropped last night. Sadly, we only caught one small red rock crab, which we threw back. Those crustaceans always seem to give us trouble.

The trip out for the crab pot did give me a chance to take a photo of our anchorage.

Wild North and Float Plane at anchor in Boughey Bay

My attempt at an artistic photo of the cleat our stern anchor line was tied to. That’s Scott retrieving the anchor in the background.

Johnstone Strait gave us no major issues. Because of our well-planned timing, we had current pushing us most of the way. We did have a foggy start, but that appears to be par for the course here at this time of year.

The Johnstone Strait was more tiring than I remembered on the way north. We made great time, but the boat got pushed around by current and we had to dodge a lot of wood. At one point we had logs moving around us like torpedos - crazy stuff! We also ran into a huge group of dolphins, at least 50, probably more. It was hard to count because they were swimming around two other boats as well as us. They were very playful, jumping and bow riding. I got lots of blurry pictures of splashes and dolphin tails. I think it might actually be harder when there are so many, you don’t know where to point the lens.

You can kind of see that there are several dolphins swimming together in the picture above. Every splash or wake is a dolphin.

The visit from the dolphins lifted our spirits after a long day fighting with swirling currents and logs. We got into Thurston Bay late afternoon, and there were already several boats anchored in one corner of the bay. Scott found a little sheltered finger in the southeast corner of the bay, across from everyone else, so we anchored there and had a nice quiet corner all to ourselves.

After dinner Scott, Laurie and I went out to explore with their dinghy. It was a beautiful evening.

You can see all the other boats across the bay. No one was close to us.

We visited the islet you can barely see in the middle of this picture.

After that it was time for bed. Ryan and I have an early start tomorrow: we need to go to Campbell River to get fuel, water, and a few fresh food items, so we have to leave at 5:30 AM for a 7:30 AM transit of the Seymour Narrows.

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