We’ve spent the last five days anchored out front of the Haida village of Daajing Giids relaxing, resupplying, getting our laundry done, and going to the mandatory orientation required for visitors to Gwaii Haanas. The weather has been mostly gray and rainy, though we had sunbreaks in the late morning on Saturday when we attended the very small farmer’s market, and on-and-off sunshine on Monday and Tuesday. The village is lovely and being somewhere with restaurants meant we could take a break from cooking dinner for a few of the days. Blacktail Restaurant provided us with an elegant arrival celebration dinner (the mushroom pasta was everything I hoped for), and the Korean fried chicken style sandwich Steller’s Jay Community Pub served up was spicy, sweet, delicious, and great with a cold beer.
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Through the Outside Passage and Across the Hecate Strait
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.
