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6-17 FRI
Sleep in till 7, then go up Chatham Channel and around to Cutter
Cove, crab but no luck. Move on towards Port Hardy via Knight
Inlet, weather outlook is bad, but we enjoy good weather all day,
partly cloudy with a shower or two near Alert Bay. We stop in Port
Hardy for fuel, no time for grocery or phone- we push on. Pass
through God's Pocket and into Queen Charlotte Strait, light ocean
swells, sunny, we set course for Pine Island, past Storm Island,
then Egg Island, with Cape Calvert as our objective. The crossing
takes two hours plus and we are thankful for the good weather. We
enter Fitzhugh Sound past Safety Cove and finally into Kwakshus
Channel where we anchor in PURTH BAY for the night. Pretty spot.
Lori can't find a recipe so I volunteer to cook spaghetti. Rob and I
stay while Lori and Les row into shore to check
the trail that goes across to the ocean side beach. I'm cooking
away, when we see Les come back at the prescribed time but he is
alone and in a hurry. I yell that there is no rush, the foods not
quite ready. He yells back, forget the food, there's something he
wants us to do- We think the worst, what's happened to Lori? I
shut down the stove, drop everything. But he tells us to bring the
camera. We row to shore as instructed and head down the trail, we
greet the "Chief", a saber-toothed face hand-carved in a cedar
tree, we wonder through the deep woods on wood planks, through
fallen trees cut for our passage. Near the end we smell the salt
air and hear the ocean surf. The view is spectacular, a crescent
sand beach, light waves form lines, rocky points to each side with
the sun setting through a magnificent pastel colored sky. Click,
click, click, I should have brought more film! What a great place.
We reluctantly hike back. When we reach the boat I'm told I've
made a big mistake. Thinking I burnt dinner or something I'm
informed that I have been elect head chef.
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