It was 58 at 7:00 this morning with spots of blue sky hiding behind the clouds. We left at 8:30 to make our way to Lagoon Cove Marina. We have 2 sets of rapids to go through this time - Greene Point Rapids & Chatham Channel & are going up the inside route. The wind got up to 30 knots (mostly 25 knots with a gust of 30) going through Chancellor Channel, with lots of white caps & water splashing over the bow. One of the hooks holding up the kayak on the starboard side came undone - hopefully it's secure enough to stay on the boat. We went up Wellbore Channel (20 knot winds) & then ducked into Farewell Harbour at 10:30 to anchor & see if the winds died down before heading into Johnstone Straits. Fortunately the kayak hook was a relatively easy thing for Rod to fix when we anchored. We picked up anchor at 12:30 to head out to Johnstone & then to Chatham Channel for the last rapids on this leg.
When we got to Johnstone, winds were 20 knots most of the way, with 3 ft swells in the beginning. Lady Lynn handles the water quite well so we were always comfortable. We were in the straits for about 2 hours.
Mr. Cat (Chardonnay) prefers to be in his "condo/kennel" in our stateroom when the water is choppier. We've seen quite a few fish farms as well as patches of clear cutting of timber along the shores since we left Octopus Islands.
We got close to Lagoon Cove around 4:30 & there was no room left at the marina. We ended up in Cutter Cove which is across from Minstrel Island, before you get to Lagoon. We were anchored by 5:00. We barbequed cheese burgers for dinner. There were 2 other boats here when we first arrived, 3 boats just came in so now there are 6 of us.
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