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We woke this morning to clouds and cooler temperatures, but no rain. There’s also fog, but it hangs 200 feet above the water, thus not requiring that we travel using radar. Terry whipped up Denver omelets for breakfast while Bob made coffee, and we headed into Johnstone Strait, which runs most of the northeast shoreline of Vancouver Island before hitting the Queen Charlotte Sound and Islands. The water this morning is flat with little current. Halfway up the Strait at the confluence of Barnet Passage and Hanson Island we spotted a couple of whale sightseeing boats, so slowed the engines, swung out wider toward the middle of the passage, and spotted EIGHT Orca whales! They were feeding, so dove out of sight for a minute or two at a time, then re-surfaced with big blows. We were far enough away we had to use binoculars to see them clearly, but Bob used his big lens and took about 100 photographs. We all slept like logs last night, our best sleep yet, and even Greg didn’t awake until 6am, which he says is “sleeping in”. Terry and Greg remain amiable, amusing, friendly, patient hosts on their lovely boat, and they have an enormous collection of boating stories that are amazing to hear.
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We woke this morning to clouds and cooler temperatures, but no rain. There’s also fog, but it hangs 200 feet above the water, thus not requiring that we travel using radar. Terry whipped up Denver omelets for breakfast while Bob made coffee, and we headed into Johnstone Strait, which runs most of the northeast shoreline of Vancouver Island before hitting the Queen Charlotte Sound and Islands. The water this morning is flat with little current. Halfway up the Strait at the confluence of Barnet Passage and Hanson Island we spotted a couple of whale sightseeing boats, so slowed the engines, swung out wider toward the middle of the passage, and spotted EIGHT Orca whales! They were feeding, so dove out of sight for a minute or two at a time, then re-surfaced with big blows. We were far enough away we had to use binoculars to see them clearly, but Bob used his big lens and took about 100 photographs. We all slept like logs last night, our best sleep yet, and even Greg didn’t awake until 6am, which he says is “sleeping in”. Terry and Greg remain amiable, amusing, friendly, patient hosts on their lovely boat, and they have an enormous collection of boating stories that are amazing to hear.
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