On Thursday morning we motored back over to Keeweenah Bay, with a potential weather window for sailing down to Vancouver Island having shown up for the next day. Again, we saw more humpbacks nearly the whole time, from out front of Rose Harbour all the way to the outside of Keeweenah Bay!
In preparing for our upcoming passage, we baked and cooked, ensuring we’d have easy-to-heat meals and snacks for the whole day-and-a-half it was expected to take.
After overnighting at the Shearwater Marina to get our laundry done, we did a bit of final shopping in Bella Bella, as well as dealing with a few items we needed internet connectivity for, we set back off-grid, heading north-west to an overnight anchorage that would give us a good starting point the next morning.
Perrin Anchorage (52°16’38″N 128°22’38″W), between Ivory and Watch Islands, and unnamed on Google Maps, doesn’t look like much from the satellite image, but as you can see from the charts, has reasonable protection in settled weather with a bunch of reefs that dry at low tide. I don’t think it would be comfortable in a southerly blow, but suited our purposes in the weather we had quite nicely.
