Thursday, August 14, 2025
A stretch of bad weather is
on the way and we’ve been trying to get on the dock tonight at Gorge Harbour so
we can be tied to a dock when it hits. The rain is supposed to be a real soaker
for at least 2 days, but the more worrisome issue is high winds, with gusts
into the 40s. That’s supposed to hit us potentially tonight but by tomorrow
afternoon it’s supposed to be really bad. Anyway, we can’t get on the dock
today at Gorge but did already have reservations for Friday and Saturday
nights, so we decided to get over there and throw down anchors for the night so
we are poised to get on the dock first thing Friday when available. The smoke
has arrived today from the Port Alberni fire and it is SO THICK the air is
blue, my eyes are burning, and my lungs hurt. The rainstorm will be welcome. We
arrived in Gorge and found great spots to hunker down until tomorrow, but are
not rafted together. Connie and Greg are on their own anchor and we are on our
own. If the winds are truly heinous it’s best this way. We decided to do dinner
on our own boats since neither one of us wants to commute to the other boat in
the pouring rain – which as I write this it is indeed POURING buckets. Our
dinner is in the oven and we aren’t going anywhere tonight.
Humpback sighting!
At anchor in Gorge Harbour around 10AM, and this is how thick the smoke was
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