Quiet in Quigley
29 July 2014 | Quigley Creek, Princess Royal Island
Maggie
It took just over 8 hours of bumpiness crossing Cammano Sound to reach Quigley Creek, an anchorage that isn't in the guide books but looked pretty on the chart, and it was!
Princess Royal Island is also home to the Spirit Bear and I thought maybe we'd be lucky enough to see one... it was worth a shot.
In the long stretches of rain and runs on the water and in the quiet of the evenings at anchor we have laughed and chatted and played Hand and Foot, 3:13, Golf and Mexican train, Dill and I learned to capture the rain water and fill our water tanks, we've shared cigars and cocktails and life stories, we've read our books and looked at hundreds of photos, old and new, stored on our computer downstairs... and the time flies by so quickly.
Once we'd dropped anchor I kayaked up Quigley Creek. Took a glass of wine with me and sat in the river when I was as far up as I could go and listened to the wonderful sounds of geese and burbling water and silence around me... could've stayed a long long time!
The men came back with a nice sized yellow eye :) but pesto halibut was on the menu for dinner and it was yummy.
After dinner the water was dead calm and the sunset so pretty we all climbed into the dinghy and went out into Laredo Channel to see the suns final descent over the mountains nearby, Dillon hanging over the dinghy upside down until Nev put her into full throttle and we whizzed back to BLUE.
We climbed into bed around 11pm happily exhausted.