A little help past the cape

So after leaving Duval point and saying our good byes to Dave, Lisa and their kids... and their kids (Yup, three generations were there running the fishing lodge. How cool is that? ) we loaded our gear on George's Sea Legend Water Taxi and started our 2.5 hour, high speed blast around the infamous Cape Caution.

It's difficult to make a decision to circumvent a challenging section of our planned route, but for us, after our recent experiences in Sunderland Channel, we weren't ready to give the mighty Pacific an unobstructed, clear, shot at us.

George, the owner operator of the shuttle, was a wealth of information about the areas history, tides, currents, sea mammals and some of the amazing archeology finds some of his research Clientele are studying on the nearby Islands.

One fun fact he shared was about the casting of a 14 thousand year old foot print he shuttled back to Port Hardy... carefully. The scientist have determined that today's sea level is very similar to the height 14k years ago and they are finding all kinds of artifacts from that time period on one of the islands.

After a fascinating ride, George dropped us off at our chosen destination to start paddling again, Fury Island just north of Rivers Inlet. As we finished loading our boats we met several kayakers, Anthony and Lindsey out on a 10 day trip from Port Hardy and a couple, Jim and Lynda, from Albedos, a 50'+ Nordhaven Trawler.

After a friendly chat with the Luxo Trawler couple we exchanged contact info and agreed there was a good chance we'd see them again in Shearwater, our next stopover port.

Lynda paddle a bit with us while Jim went back to the yacht to launch his camera drone to view us from a bird's eye. Pretty interesting shots that we'd see later.

The next two nights we ended up playing campsite challenge, but were able to find an elevated site at Green cove the first night and a secluded spot on a clam shell beach outside the abandoned, dilapidated, cannery at Namu. Lauri, enjoyed watching my hoisting gymnastics with the boats the first night, but was muttering under her breath about the accommodations at Namu. I was pretty sure there were no ghosts under our "tent platform", but Lauri was not convinced.

A little Namu trivia... One of the first Orca's in captivity was caught near Namu and transported to Seattle and it was given the Namu name.