Haida Gwaii Trip - Day 4

We awoke in the morning to face a minor crisis.  We were out of coffee.

*Panic sets in*

Now, this situation was not as easily dealt with as you may initially think.  The yacht club was quite a ways from anything resembling a grocery store.  The walk to town would have been brutally long.  What to do?

Our first plan was to take the boat down to Sandspit and tie up at the government dock.  Well, when we got there, the government dock was about 20 feet above the water due to the rock-bottom tide.

No good.

Second plan was for Alan and I to jump in the dinghy and row ashore while the Captain and Nick waited off shore.  Well, once we got ashore, we found out the grocery store wasn't open for another hour.

Back to the boat.  Wait.

Back in the dinghy.  Go ashore.  Coffee.  Row back out the boat.  Profit.

Quite the undertaking for coffee, but well worth it in the end.

After the coffee debacle, we were ready to make our way across the sandbar.  We found a spot a bit north where you could cross in around 12 feet of water.  Trouble is, it's a sandbar so depths can change.  We were all a bit nervous.

 Alan on bow lookout, hoping NOT to see the bottom

 3.8 meters or 12.5 feet.  Intense

Clear of the sandbar, we started heading south.  Rest of the day was a leisurely sail down the island.  Weather was overcast, but no rain.

 Alfred Hitchcock moment

 Entrance to Cumshewa Inlet on the North of Louise Island

 Lake #6?

Just inside Cumshewa Inlet Alan spotted a group of three orcas.  Looked like a mother, father and calf. 

We continued up Cumshewa Inlet and eventually anchored in Beatty Anchorage.  The anchorage is still actively used for logging operations in the area, so there were trucks and other things on shore.

In Beatty Anchorage

Pretty awful sunset that night.

Sauron's forces are massing in the east...

His eye is fixed on Rivendale...