HEADING SOUTH / Rivers Inlet

So we are now heading south, still boating with Bill and Wendy on Sea Badger(who caught up with us at Butedale) and enjoyed witnessing the Spirit Bear.. Enroute we also saw more whales. We had decided to continue traveling together, rounding Cape Caution. In order to do that, we had to pay attention to the weather, which was currently shitty. It rains all the time and there is nothing summer about life in the Pacific North West. 
So......there we were, heading south through the Fitz Hugh sound where we decided to spend some time in the Rivers Inlet before rounding Cape Caution. While here we spent time at Duncanby and then to Dawsons Landing and then back to Duncaby in preparation of the Cape Caution crossing. 
The weather forecast called for 1-2 meter swell and minimal wind....So much for weather forcasters, they were wrong again!  The initial plan was if the weather was too bad we would just turn back and wait it out.........Ya right!
We departed at 5AM and within an hour Tracey was pretty sick and would continue to be sick for the next 8 hours. We hit 5-6 meter (Thats 15-20 foot) swells with wind near 25 knots from the south. Lots of surfing and rocking and rolling are all we had to look forward to. This was the first time that the ships bell would sound on its own. Needless to say, not Tracey's favorite voyage.

This old planter box is actually a retired dugout canoe. 

Working fish boats, rafted together.

Sea plane dropping off vacationing fisherman. Duncanby Landing is a fishing camp.

They have a very nice store.. it's the one with the green roof.

I'm not always this relaxed ;-)

posing for the photo op 

someone has their eye on dinner

Pairadice and Sea Badger moored at Dawson's Landing.

We had a great day arriving to Dawson's Landing, the weather in our favor that afternoon. That did not last long. We have learned that the weather reports (if you can get them are often incorrect and/or incomplete.  There are no pictures of the horrible circumstances the weather creates. You are way to busy piloting the vessel and working through it. It is hard to believe the weather was so nice two days before our crossing Cape Caution. AND we've learned...you can't always trust the weather forecast!