Having spent an absolutely perfectly quiet night in Smugglers bay, we departed at 8:30 for our crossing back over the Straight of Georgia. This could be a very long post, but I’ll summarize as follows since it is almost the same as our prior crossing except we had the weather on our stern this time:
- Absolutely no wind in the morning at Smugglers, and yet it was blowing in the Straight. I still don’t know a thing about weather this very strange season.
- Check out our track, you can see it from the prior straight of Georgia post, except this time its the one on the right. About two thirds down the track suddenly turns due south. That my friends was a short bio break where we ran with the waves long enough to make a couple sandwiches before returning to our self abuse.
Otherwise, it was a repeat of the conditions we had previously. Halibut bank reported 6 foot seas. It does not look like much through the window, but I assure you that in person it looked a bit more ominous!
We spent the night in Silva bay. We had planned to anchor but the bay was absolutely chock full of anchored vessels, most of them either derelict or without anyone on board. Makes you wonder and the marina was not cheap.