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| Goats running for their lives on Jedidiah |
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| Heron |
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| Man and His Dog going exploring |
A slight chop from the northwest greeted us in the morning, but the sky was blue and the sun is shining brightly on us. We headed out at the crack of 10:00 am to Campbell River for Fuel and a few last minute items forgotten in the packing frenzy before we left Vancouver.
The closer we got, the warmer it got and the wind had all but died down. Fuel was $1.35 (all taxes in) and we topped up our tanks and continued toward Johnstone Strait to head to Port Harvey. We made the tides heading up Discovery passage and were gleefully remarking on how we were getting a 2 knot push the whole way up Johnstone Strait. Push --- Smush ---- we broke our own Johnstone Strait rule - never travel up Johnstone Strait with opposing winds and tide - the push is not worth it in the end. But - Hey - There was no wind where we were so we assumed that the radio weather was off by notifying us of this 25 knot wind. We were on schedule to arrive in Port Harvey @ 9:00 pm but the weather gods did some conferring and we did not make that time.
After remarking that I would make dinner when we arrived at Port Harvey and some back slapping on the bridge that we were getting a 5 knot push, we rounded the corner out of Current & Race Passage to be greeted from flat calm to nasty ass 6-8 foot waves. After taking water over the top of our bridge and hearing all the crash bang booms going on downstairs to a dog shaking so bad ( I swear she was on her way to a doggy heart attack!) - we made the sage decision to head into Port Neville for the night. Besides we reasoned, we had never been there and it was only 4 miles away, only short 4 miles of hobby horsing and hanging onto the dog to save her from jumping overboard! We anchored securely around the corner from the Post Office Dock and spent a couple of hours throwing out broken glass, rounding up all the lemons that flew out of the fridge and then squeezing same lemons to have a martini!
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