We continue our journey up the Canadian coast, stopping at anchorages we enjoyed last summer. After Quadra Island, we anchor at Octopus for three nights, where the good weather allows for beautiful hikes and even a refreshing swim in the lake. The weather then turns bad, but the succession of depressions still present this season provides us with the southeast wind we need.
We stay a few days in Port McNeill, waiting for a good weather window to pass Cape Caution. We then head to Calvert Island and the welcoming Hakai research station, where we are the only ones anchored. The wintering couple shows us around the site and the reconstructed skeleton of a whale calf that washed up on their beach four years ago. The visible skull fracture indicates death from a cranial trauma after a collision with a fast motorboat... A problem in the region despite awareness campaigns: "See a blow, go slow!" The whales should arrive soon, as the herring spawning has begun.
We have been since the day before yesterday, a bit further north, in Shearwater, sheltered from a deep depression... Still 150 miles to the border with Alaska!
Happy Easter!
