Images of Our Shoulder Season Travels in Great Northern. 8/15/23 – 8/31/23, Hunter Bay to Waiatt Bay and the Octopus Islands, British Columbia

What better way to present our latest cruising travels: Pictures with a bit of description. Oh… I could add a lot of words, and I have been known to do just that… but I will leave emotive translations up to you. Words can get in the way, eh?

This is a synopsis of our third 2023 “cruise” through the paradise that is the Salish Sea. Oh I know… the images do not convey the sound of lapping water against the granitic wall just off the stern. There are no briny smells. The static water does not shimmer as it does in real life. Add your own sounds, smells and shimmers…

Side note. Consider it a Shakespearean aside: The pictures are entered into this blog using Microsoft’s clipping tool. You can’t do much with those, if you feel inclined, as they are a static, “detuned” facsimile of the original. They were “shot” for the most part with a Galaxy S22 phone, in raw format. If you would like to have one of the photos to have and hold… just ask. I would be more than happy to send you the raw format (If I can figure out how!) Just send me a comment or email me, frabl44@gmail.com. Ha!! Now… on with it:

8/15/23, 0800: genset (Genny) on. 0820: Fred and George (our port and stbd 3208 Catapiller Engines fired up. At 0820: We departed Port Ludlow. 13:30 (that would be 1:30 PM for most of you…)… and made our way to the anchorage at Hunter Bay, Lopez Island, in the San Juan Archipelago.

8/15/23, 08:22 PM: View from Hunter bay looking East over the sandy Mud Bay tombola towards the Western shore of Fidalgo Island.
8/16/23, 05:29 am: Hunter Bay. Looking from the stern through Lopez Pass towards Fidalgo Island.
8/16/23, 05:30. Hunter Bay. Same view through Lopez pass with telephoto
8/16/23, 06:38. Hunter Bay looking east through Lopez Pass.
8/19/23, 7:28PM. Reid Harbor, Stuart Island
8/21/23, 07:12 am. Reid Harbor looking East towards San Juan Island.
8/21/23, 11:21am. Friday Harbor, San Juan Island.
8/22/23, 8:02PM (Back to) Reid Harbor.
8/24/23 6:55PM. Tribune Bay, Hornsby Island. (Usually filled with boats in the summer, in the shoulder season…)
8/25/23, 2:32PM,. Drew Harbor / Rebecca Spit, Quadra Island, BC.
8/26/23, 5:04PM. Rebecca Spit, Drew Harbor, Quadra Island: Drunky and Wunky. (No! This is not Les and I. Clearly. She would have been paddling, I would have been towed…)
8/26/23, 7:56PM. Drew Harbor, Quadra Island… looking North towards our next destination: The Octopus Islands…
8/28/23, 3:44PM. The Notorious Beasley Narrows, the wayward son of Surge Narrows, best transited at slack or close to it.
8/28/23, 3:44PM. A quiescent Surge Narrows at slack. Looking down Okisollo Channel.
8/29/23, 8:56am. Waiatt Bay, Quadra Island looking East.
8/29/23, 9:00am. Waiatt Bay, Quadra Island, Panorama.
8/29/23, 11:57am. Waiatt Bay, Quadra Island. Great Northern.
8/29/23, 12:07am. Waiatt Bay looking East.
8/29/23, 12:07. An Octopus Island anchorage. One of many.
8/30/23, 07:49am. Waiatt Bay looking West.
8/30/23, 07:50am. Waiatt Bay looking East.
8/30/23, 10:15am. Black slug found on the trail to Small Inlet from Waiatt Bay.
8/30/23, 10:31am. Small Inlet, Quadra Island.
8/31/23, 07:57am. Waiatt Bay, Quadra Island.
8/31/23, 12:02PM. Kayaking past a clam garden, Octopus Islands, Quadra Island.
8/31/23, 12:03am. Closeup of clam garden. One of many in the Octopus Islands. The stacked rocks trap sediment and nutrients. An ideal scheme for growing and harvesting clam. Aquaculture created and used by the indigenous peoples for millennia
8/31/23, 12:07am. Kayaking in the Octopus Islands.

Next installment will be: Cortes Island, Desolation Sound, British Columbia, 9/1/23 to 9/10/23.

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