The paperwork has been done, tables consulted, math figured, and times recorded. All that’s left is the doing. We’ll depart our anchorage tomorrow morning at 10:30am, travel 15 miles up up whale passage, slide by the Rendezvous Islands and slip into the Hole in the Wall east entrance at 1pm. Traveling 5.3 knots (speed over ground), we’ll squirt out the West end of the narrow 4 mile channel at 1:45p, ten minutes before slack, when the current should be manageable. We’ll hang a right and breeze through the Okisolo Upper Rapids at exactly slack and make our way out to Johnstone Straight. This scenic route bypasses Seymour Narrows that we transited in both directions last year (also scenic, but it’s always nice to do something different.) Both routes have to be timed carefully to avoid currents in excess of ten knots with commensurate turbulence.
Today was a pretty chill day. We left Campbell River to have the current going with us and arrived at Bird Cove on Read Island around 11am. Vi whipped up an awesome turkey sandwich lunch and then we rowed the dinghy ashore to explore the island. We didn’t get very far, but scrambling around on the rocks felt really good and the cove has other arms that were nice to see. We startled a pair of red headed loons on shore; what did Kay call those again? I miss her wildlife acumen. Kay we miss you in so many ways!
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