Boy are we looking forward to leaving today. We enjoyed swells from the outside most of the night which was interesting because during the day we didn’t have any swells, so what gives? It is socked in with about 1/8 mile visibility, and the area we are transiting today is rock strewn, so best if we have a visual. I spent an hour shelling the batch of shrimp I cooked last night and yielded about 2 lbs, and that was just all of the smaller salad sized shrimp. The larger ones went into the freezer last night uncooked. I packaged up the cooked and peeled small shrimp for future quick appetizers, and left the larger ones out for our lunch today – Shrimp Louis Salad.
We are now slowly making our way down to Mound Island to anchor out in a more protected cove, should the winds materialize. I checked the Windy and Predict Wind apps this morning and neither concurred with what the marine weather forecast is saying, so we aren’t sure what exactly to expect. It’s 11:15AM and we are now out in the middle of Queen Charlotte Strait, well.....really just skirting the edge of it, we can duck into more protected waters at any time. It’s pretty soupy out here now that we are away from Cullen Harbor, but calm, and radar is spinning. We are now on a countdown to get south by Friday to hook up with friends, and have a course plotted for the next 4 nights to get us there, only about 60 miles away but a semi-major crossing is involved. We’ve been sitting on the edge of Queen Charlotte Strait for the past 24 hours so we get the occasional 1 bar of 5G that comes and goes. I am hoping these blog updates post! Not sure when I’ll get service again but will post again soon.
Over and
out for today.
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