We continue to move farther North each day. Every night our group leader, Mark Bunzel, editor of the Waggoners Cruising Guide give us an itinerary of our next days cruise. We then try to find the destination on the chart plotter and plot out our Route. It has been frustrating learning a new navigation system, but is getting easier each day.

Wind, weather and tide occasionally have an impact on our daily destinations; but there have been no large rapids the last few days. The scenery gets more and more dramatic as we head towards Prince Rupert. We have been anchoring in tucked away bays with beautiful waterfalls, have seen several whales, which really means seeing a far off spout and then a glimpse of a tail and then they are gone. We have also seen a bear, dolphins, sea otters and had a crow land on our rail while we were under way. It would not leave until we gave it a couple of crackers.

One day we pulled away from the group, which means letting them leave ahead and then never catching up. It was fun being on our own so to speak. However it was nice to be together last night when we were gifted 4 large dungeness crabs. Becky mixed up some cinnamon rolls and we had a treat the next morning.

The scenery is dramatic and the rain showers make it even more so with breaks of sunshine with the mist still on the mountains, There is still snow and with the spring thaw the waterfalls are numerous and flowing strong. I love this area north of Cape Caution, it isn’t very crowded and the anchorages are not crowded.