Day 381 Back on line.

 We've been off line for the past two days so I hope you got caught up on our progress.  We made it to Princess Louisa Inlet and had a nice two days there.  We didn't see the Sun at all, but we sure had some sprinkles and rain.  

We left this morning at 0700 to make the slack tide at 0800.  It worked out just fine.  It's four miles from Chatterbox Falls to the Malibu Rapids and the speed limit is 4 knots so all was fine.  Of course we got passed by a power boat going just as fast as he wanted.  He blew past us and another boat that was ahead of us like we were standing still.  We saw him a few minutes later fishing.  Now there is a sign at the falls that all hook and line fishing is banned in the inlet to allow the resident fish to repopulate.  I guess he didn't care about that either.  It's people like that that give power boaters a bad name.  We ran into another large power boat on his way up the Jervis Inlet going very fast.  I radioed him to try and get him to slow down as he passed but apparently his wasn't listening and through up a wake big enough that we had water splash over the bow of the boat and that takes so power.  Once past us, he slowed down a bit for the two boats behind us but still never answered the call on the VHF radio.

We got through the rapids at the perfect time and motored down the Jervis Inlet to Musket Island (49 43.716N 124 12.789W), a journey of 43.3 miles inside Blind Bay.  We had to pass through Telescope Passage to get there.  It's a narrow passage on the North side of Blind Bay.  There are some rock you also have to worry about.  Just as we entered this narrow passage, we were greeted by a power boat just whizzing along.  After he passed us, along comes a fishing boat loaded with clams on his way out of the bay.  This all happened in the span of just a few minutes and of course it was in the narrowest, rockiest part of the passage.  We didn't see another boat the rest of the way into the inlet.

We dropped anchor about 1500 and lowered Puff into the water so we could do a stern tie just to play it safe.  There were a few other boats(several with stern ties) and we went along with the crowd.  No reason to chance swinging into them in the night-- or day for that matter.

Once secured, we rowed over to Musket Island of a nice walk and a bit of climbing.  It's a very rocky sided island.  We expect to be here just tonight and off for Lund(fuel and water) and Squirrel Cove at Cortes Island for the night.  We will be going through some powerful rapids in the next few days.  One of the bad things about making this passage.  

Look for more when I next get internet.