Yes that is a bent propeller and shaft stuck in the rock in front of the sign. Warning, rocks win when you run over them.
The gale force winds never materialized that was predicted. We had a perfectly calm evening and it did not start clouding up till much later today and right now it is raining. We came back down via moss passage which took us into Milbank Sound where the rollers were getting bigger by the minute. Somewhere out there the wind is kicking up and causing these big waves. This was not Liz water and she was not feeling well, skipping dinner after less than 20 minutes in them. I was even getting a bit queasy so were happy that were sitting here safe in the anchorage. Right now just outside of our anchorage, the rollers are breaking on the rocks in big white plumes of froth and spray. Hopefully they die down a bit by tomorrow so we can sneak across Seaforth Channel and into Shearwater without too much rocking and rolling.
I went exploring in the dinghy after taking Sophie for her walk and found a black bear lying in the grass in a small cove just out of sight of the big boats. We were in the dinghy about 50 feet away and the bear showed little or now interest in us until Sophie spotted the bear and started barking. The bear got up and slowly walked towards the trees stopping to check us out several times before disappearing into the woods. Unlike the brown and grizzly’s we saw that ran the minute the saw us, this one was in no hurry to get away.
I went back after dinner with Chris, Sherm and Nancy to see if the bear had come back but no such luck.
We are going to try and get into position to run across Queen Charlotte Strait on Sunday. That means we need to be at Fury Cove tomorrow night. It sounds like our window for good weather for crossing is just one day with high winds forecast later in the week.
tough life
perfect morning in Monckton Cove
Calm before the storm, outside route
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