July 5th Boswell Cove to Allard Bay

July 5^th Boswell Cove to Allard Bay    We head out at 0600.  Walt and Odile pull their shrimp pot, which comes up empty this time.  Walt takes an excellent photo of us departing Boswell Cove.  

ExTerra at Boswell Cove BC

We go down Boswell Inlet, out Smith Sound and around the corner and into Rivers Inlet.   Right at the turn into Rivers Inlet we are surrounded by Humpback whales! What a treat!  They are feeding in about 100 feet of water so they don't dive and wave their tails at us but they do sky hop, heads above water and swim and blow all around us and between out boats.  No great photos but here are a couple.

Whale on the fish finder!!

Rivers Inlet is most likely the most inhabited inlet we will venture into up here.  There are a few large fishing lodges and float homes and two marinas where you can fuel up.  We take our time weaving in and out of the small outlying islands and eventually pass Duncanby Lodge and Marina, a higher end fly-in fishing lodge.  

Just down the way we also see the old Goose Bay Cannery.  The Waggoner Cruising Guide (a great annually updated publication) indicates that 29 fisherman have purchased this old abandoned cannery.  It will be interesting over time to see what they turn it into.  

We are ahead of schedule for crossing Draney Narrows into Draney Inlet (25 minutes after high or low tide referenced to Prince Rupert) so we turn off the engines and drift for an hour and a half, bobbing around in the windy, choppy Rivers Inlet making steady headway towards the Narrows.  We safely transit and reconnoiter with B Mondo, confirming that our destination is still Allard Bay.  We make slow, steady progress in light wind under head sail up the inlet on the ebbing tide.

Our home this evening is Allard Bay, entered on at least a little tide since the entrance is narrow and only 9’ deep.  We anchor, B Mondo ties on and we enjoy Carl’s bbq’d chicken for dinner.  We keep an eye out for bear but do not see any.  We do watch a family of river otters swimming and cavorting nearby however.