Once we left Jennis Bay, we had but one objective: get home without getting bogged down in the High Season crowds. That will become more of a problem the farther south we go. The secret is good planning and making sure we have reservations whenever possible.

From Jennis, we swung by Sullivan Bay to pick up a few groceries, the most important being a bottle of gin. (Hey, we’ve got our priorities straight!). The shelves at Sullivan were pretty sparse. They obviously hadn’t restocked in several weeks. There were three bottles of gin left and we had to settle for Beefeater rather than our usual Bombay Sapphire. Sacrifices must be made.

By the time we got to our destination, Waddington Bay, the Hurricane had arrived. Once again we holed up in the cabin as the wind howled through the anchorage, slewing the boats back and forth on their anchors. Surprisingly, there were only four other boats at anchor. Not many for the height of High Season. Four more came in later, but that’s still not much for Waddington in August.

Tuesday’s run was just a long, boring slog, most of it in Knight Inlet. There was some patchy fog when we first emerged into Knight, and we thought it might make things more interesting, but it quickly dissipated. We and the Hurricane arrived at Port Harvey together about 2:00. The place was pretty busy, but George had saved us a spot. There were a few familiar boats and faces on the dock, including TYC friends Brad and Marsha Baker on Leisure Lee.

Tomorrow will be challenging. The wind is forecast to be light in the morning. We have to get down Johnstone Strait ahead of the Hurricane but we can’t leave too early because the first of the tidal rapids, Whirlpool, is running against us until 2:00. We are going to try to punch through half an hour or so before slack. Any earlier and there’s a good chance we’ll end up standing still or even going backwards. Then it’s a couple hours down to the next one, Greene Point. By the time we get there it will be running at strength but the flow is pretty laminar and going with us so it shouldn’t be a big problem.