Saunders Island

We arrived at Carcass Island during the early hours of the morning. The landing at Port Pattison was cancelled because of strong winds and high waves. We relocated to Leopard beach on the south east part of the island where it is more protected, but there were still 30 knot winds, with a strong rip tide and undertow. It was not ideal for landings so it was cancelled.

We sailed on to our planned afternoon landing site at Saunders Island in the hope it would be calmer there. The beach landing on the neck was cancelled because of wind speeds up to 40 knots. We ended up sailing a bit further around the island to Cliff Point, but again it was not a good place to do a landing.

The owner of the island, living on farm, came on the radio and suggested that we sail further around the island to Port Egmont to see the remains of the first British settlement. Winds in the bay were manageable and therefore we were able to get ashore for a while this afternoon.Read more