Ballet Bay

After taking two Ibuprofen last night, I slept well. But today my legs felt yesterday’s hike every time I stood up! It was a misty morning and looked like we had some rain last night. Could have used more rain to wash all the salt off C-Traveler! Malibu Rapids was pretty tame with maybe a .5mph incoming (flood) current, if that much. But the tide station we use to figure slack showed a very small bump in the tide, so I didn’t expect much current. Just before we got to Patrick Point, another C-Brat friend, Gary, from the vessel Daybreak, (he and his wife, Colleen, coordinate the Friday Harbor gathering), sent me a text through my Inreach that there were some pictographs not far up ahead of us. He has been watching our progress on my Inreach. (They are called the Jervis Inlet Pictographs). Gary sent us the coordinates, and the three of us looked for and found them. This is what a Google search AI said about them: "Jervis Inlet, located on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, features significant, ancient Indigenous rock paintings (pictographs) created by the shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation. These red ochre images are found on steep cliff faces, particularly around Princess Royal Reach and Hotham Sound, often visible only by boat, and reflect cultural connections to the landscape, navigation, and history." As the day went on, the clouds and mist burned off and it became a nice sunny day. Little breeze and the water was pretty calm. This afternoon we pulled into Ballet Bay. I kayaked around the cove here, while Bill and Mike got on their Kaboats to explore. Two sailboats also pulled in the bay here for the night.Read more