Spout Bay

A long day from Skull Cove across Queen Charlotte Strait found us sailing through the mist and patchy fog to a familiar anchorage - Spout Bay on the north side of Hanson Island facing Blackfish Sound. We  tucked close to the western shoreline and dropped the hook in forty-five feet of glassy water. The following morning fog was only slightly lifting by 5:30am.  We would weigh anchor at 7am, exit through a foggy Blackney Passage and into Johnstone Strait to catch the big flood. "Securite, securite, securite. Forty foot sail, southbound, western shore, Blackney Passage". I reported our presence in response to a passenger ship who had just announced northbound arrival to Blackney. We had their AIS and radar image but it was good to make the visual confirmation when the 200 foot vessel appeared half mile ahead, center channel through a thinning fog at the south end of Blackney.

Early morning incoming tide waves rock us awake.