Day 380 Rain in Princess Louisa Inlet.

It rained and it sprinkled just about all day today. The clouds settled into the inlet and were almost right down to the water line in the morning. With the rain, more waterfalls appeared around the walls that make up the inlet with some of the peaks reaching 8,000 feet in height.

We launched Puff early in the afternoon during a dry spell for a trip to MacDonald Island about half way from Chatterrbox Falls and Malibu Rapids. There were oysters, clams and mussels in the tens of thousands everywhere you looked. We saw people filling buckets with them right on the shore. One woman was using a garden claw to dig up clams. They stop the harvesting of them at the end of May and none can be taken again till the end of September. If you come during the Summer, they're off limits. Right now, you can pick 30 a day if you wish.

As we headed back to the dock, power boats were coming over the rapids in the inlet. Some big and some small with only one sailboat. The largest power boat powered past all the rest to make sure he got the best space at the dock--right out at the end. All the rest had to come in around him. Most docked on the inside of the dock next to shore. A total of six new boats showed up today. The dock is pretty well full with eleven of us tied up. I was hoping for a nice sunny day but it was not to be. If tomorrow dawns sunny, we will stay, but if it is cloudy again we will take off back to Harmony Islands for the night.

We checked the tides and we will need to be at Malibu Rapids by 0811 to get through at slack tide. That means we will have to leave here at about 0700 since there is a speed limit of 4 knots and it's four miles from here. It will be an early day unless the Sun shines and then we will stay. We pulled Puff back on deck just in case we leave. We don't want her hanging off the stern as we transit the rapids. It's one less thing to worry about.

If we leave tomorrow, we should be at Harmony Islands by lunch time. I guess we will see what tomorrow brings.