Photo: Orcas in Johnstone Strait.

I spend the morning reviewing the photos and their captions, working against the dual deadlines of marina checkout time and tidal currents. We beat the checkout time but not the currents. Sailing south we're aiming for Port Neville but adverse currents force us to turn into Havannah Channel instead. We anchor in a little nook off Misty Island.

The next morning we've lost our good northwest wind and are motoring along the Vancouver Island shore of Johnstone Strait when suddenly there are Orcas on both sides of us, so many I don't know which way to point my camera. We slow down and drift to not disturb them.