August 26 -- Through the Rapids

We have another beautiful, clear, still night, but awake to thick fog. We follow last night’s GPS trail out to the channel, where the fog clears and we zoom along with the flood tide through Wellbore and Green Point rapids. We have to cut the motor and dawdle along for a couple of hours so we don’t arrive much before slack at the stronger Dent and Yuculta rapids. Just before the rapids, we meet Tangleberry , and we travel together the rest of the day. By now the weather has deteriorated, and we have a wet, bumpy ride down Calm Channel, until we turn in at Squirrel Cove, Cortes Island, to raft up, share dinner, and compare notes about our adventures since we parted in Prince Rupert.