After a rainy night, we left Lagoon Cove at about 10:15 in the morning. The weather continues to be somewhat cool and disappointing.
As we entered Knight Inlet, a 12 knot following breeze came up and we were able to sail for about an hour, until, we left Knight Inlet and entered the long, winding Tribune Channel, which encircles the larger Gilford Island.
We motored for the next 3 hours into light winds until just before our intended destination of Wahkana Bay. As we rounded the last bend in Tribune Channel, the winds picked up to about 12 knots on the nose, the seas kicked up a bit, the rain started and a fog bank appeared ahead of us.
Fortunately, within a 1/2 hour we were entering Wahkana Bay where the winds died and the visibility was not so bad. It appeared we had the entire bay to ourselves as we dropped the anchor in about 50 feet of water in the SE corner. No sooner had we settled on the anchor, that 7 more boats (all but 1 were sailboats) came into the bay looking for shelter. Five of them stayed but two of them left, probably to seek out the nearby marina at Kwatsi Bay instead - the water here is pretty deep with sharp drop-offs - not everybody is comfortable with this situation.
The big bonus today was a sighting of a pod of 20 or 30 dolphins cruising down Tribune Bay in the opposite direction from us. This is the first time we seen more than an occasional seal or otter, although the odd time we may have spotted a single dolphin or porpoise in the distance, but were never too sure.
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