Day 100; Aug 7: We got up early and were moving a few minutes before 6 AM. The water started out bumpy even before we were completely out of the anchorage. After an hour the water calmed down and it made a nice cruise to Prince Rupert. We followed a boat that is from the same marina that we are from, it’s a small world. Our slip wasn’t available when we got in so we waited 3.5 hours to get tied up where we spent the night. In the meantime, I called customs to check in. I must have said something wrong because the guy on the phone said he called the local officers to come down to the boat. The three guys came down asked some questions and proceeded to go through the entire boat. Not in jail so all is good, they didn’t find anything we didn’t declare. Later we went to dinner next to the marina and before we were done the friends from St. Helens came in so we sat together and chatted for a while.

Day 101; Aug 8: Time for chores today, laundry, groceries, garbage but no water. Prince Rupert had a boil water alert in effect. This alert was much different than in Wrangel, where everything was closed. In PR everything was open and other than using bottled water to drink everything else was normal.

Day 102; Aug 9: We left Prince Rupert headed to Lowe Inlet. The wind was blowing hard all day. The ride wasn’t uncomfortable but it was a wet ride with lots of spray all over the boat for 2/3 of the day. Once we got into Grenville Channel water did calm down. It was a very grey day with over a inch of rain predicted.

Day 103; Aug 10: Another long day planned to go to Khutze Inlet. We had a few sightings of whales doing acrobatics in the distance but once we got close, they got shy. There was some rain but not like yesterday. We have been to this inlet before but stayed in a protected area close to the mouth. Today we went all the way up to the head of the bay to checkout the waterfalls. It was a scenic anchorage but no wildlife seen.

Day 104; Aug 11: Pea Soup, our first day of heavy fog. We got going as planned but I was watching radar, charts and AIS; Carolyn was trying to see out the windows. Fortunately, the fog only lasted for the few miles until we got out of the inlet. Low-and-behold a bright and sunny day. The cruise was nice and sunny all day. We went to Rescue Bay via Jackson Narrows which is very scenic we did see a few whales of which had very small tails.

Day 105; Aug 12: We are headed to Shearwater today. We planned to spend two nights but given the weather conditions to cross Cape Caution we decided to only spend one night. Conditions look like we should cross Thursday or wait until Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. We did the typical chores when docked but this time we were able to get water. A 133’ yacht docked next to us making our boat look really small. For $260K/wk you to could have Nuri to yourself.

Day 106; Aug 13: Today we travelled to Secure anchorage to stage up for going around Cape Caution tomorrow. There are several boats staged to go around the cape tomorrow. The water forecast looks ok but not great, I just don’t want to get in the dog house, again. The sun came out and it has been a nice day.