The marine weather forecast, our counselor for travel decisions, told of wind warnings for several days, so we pulled away from the dock with some trepidation. We headed south and east to get into more protected waters. We had good conditions for awhile, but then we started to see very wide white cappy water ahead. Soon Clarence Strait was us to its old tricks. We were in 6-8 foot breaking seas; rougher seas than we ever want to see again. Of course our boat handled it all better than we did. After turning into Ernest Sound, we had a following sea that gave us a much smoother ride. At least the sealife seemed to be enjoying the rough conditions. We saw a humpback whale breach clear out of the roughest water. We also had bow chasing porpoise with us for a time. A huge Stellar sea lion also poked his nose up to take a look at us. We had a nice, quiet, well-deserved anchorage in Santa Ana. The next day we traveled up Zimovia Stait in a brisk wind but fairly smooth seas. In the !
beautiful Anita Bay we enjoyed the same view of the mountains that we had seen in Burnett.
The "Long Ranger" was already in the anchorage and we were delighted to see Destiny enter a short time later. We dinghied over to catch up on each other's adventures. We also dinghied over to Long Ranger just to say hello. They insisted we come aboard their beautiful boat and share some freshly caught crab. We learned that their new-looking boat had about 30,000 miles on it.
The next morning we spotted a doe with twin fawns along the shoreline, but still no bear.
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