Back in the USA

Becky and Chloe left this morning on the International Ferry from Sydney. We really had a great time and miss them terribly. Never knew being a grandparent could be so much fun. Just sorry Mikey could not join us on this trip.
As we crossed Haro Strait Beckyh called from the ferry which was just ahead of us and said they had stopped to watch wales. We caught up to them and then spent the next two hours floating around watching a huge pod of Killer whales. For a while they were well ahead of us and quite some distance away and with the whale watcher police all around we could not get real close. we started to leave when I noticed that we were headed right at a group of whales or they were headed right for me. I stopped the boat and cut the engines and the whole pod swam within a few feet of the boat. we floated there for a good hour watching them swim by.
We checked in through Customs and they let us back in despite Chris failing to sign her passport, the customs guy gave her a bad time and confiscated our limes. He said he was going to check on the booze we had on board, something about the type of Rum? he forgot to check that however so we got across with only losing three limes.

Were sitting in Reid harbor tonight, very peaceful. Were having steak and crabs. The only two BC crab we were able to catch. Hopefully the american crab are a bit more cooperative. Fran, your crab are winning the battle up here. So far I have thrown far more back in than I have kept, all females or too small or the wrong kind.

Tomorrow we will try to hook up with Glen and Liz and their group, they are all over on Sucia tonight. After watching whales all afternoon we decided not to run that far.