A slow day. We left Wilson Harbour at 5:45 and the kayakers departed from Elephant cove a little later. We met up just east of the Anvil stacks and headed east towards the Nunez Peninsula. We hadn't got far when the wind built to 30 knots. The kayakers were just passing a spectacularly breaking rock at that point and decided to turn back to find some shelter. They gained shelter near the Samuel Islands while we in Pelagic stood offshore and hove too to wait and see what they would do. They eventually paddled east into a small cove called Nilse Hullet, we joined them inside for lunch and decided to stay until the wind dropped too. We put on a couple of long mooring lines to large boulders on the shore; just in time as the williwaws coming down the valley suddely increased in ferocity and were hitting over 50knots at times causing the anchor to drag.

The forecast is for the wind to back to the west and moderate tonight so the kayakers are planning a dawn start to try and work around Cheapman m King Haakon and Queen Maud Bays tomorrow.