Frederick Arm - Tuesday June 17

Frederick Arm

We spent a very enjoyable evening in Port Hardy including pizza dinner at the Red Shoe restaurant.  If we remember to bring a red shoe with us next time - dessert is on the house! George pointed out the grouping of trees to watch - if they are still in the morning, good chance Johnstone Strait is calm enough to transit.
At 6 am the trees were still and the channel was flat.  Better yet, the flood tide carried us the entire distance to Sunderlund Channel.  Great passage.  We went only as far as Forward Harbor before dropping our anchor to wait for slack tide to transit Whirlpool and Greene Point Rapids.  While at anchor, we had a "Larry breakfast" including hash browns!  The "turn to flood" slack was the only time we could catch a slack tide today - so we went with it.  It meant that we had to push against the current for 12 miles to get from Whirlpool to Green Point.  Still, we arrived in plenty of time to safely transit the rapids.  Because of the phase of the moon, the tides are quite large for the next several days and that means that it is not possible to do the remaining two rapids until tomorrow.  We opted to anchor at the end of Frederick Arm -- absolutely beautiful and no other boats.  There is a log booming operation near where we anchored.  We watched them close up shop for the day and head home in a boat (no roads here!).  Very quiet evening with a true sense of peace.