The Great Adventure North Begins

On May 15, 2012, Grey Wolf and her crew of three pulled out of Chinook Landing Marina in Tacoma, WA, headed for Alaska and points in between!  Our first three nights on anchor were in Washington state.  Then we checked into Canada in Bedwell Harbour, So. Pender Island. We had U.S. potatoes on board and were told to hurry up and cook them all so we could keep them!  Nothing like eating a ten lb. bag in a hurry!! Since then we have been traveling north along the coast of British Columbia.  Even though Bill's new GPS was supposed to cover the coastal areas throughout, by the time we reached Campbell River it had given up on any details. We had to wait three days to pick up new GPS cards, since stores were not open on Sunday and the following Monday was a national holiday... We whiled away our time on anchor by working on a 1000 piece butterfly puzzle!  We really did do 2/3 of it, but the centers of the wings finally got to us and Alice just piled the remaining pieces in the middle and took a photo- looks pretty good, right?  After calculating tides and currents with a new tide book, we headed north again.  Some nights we anchored alone, with the most in one anchorage being five boats.  The night in Cutter Cove found us by ourselves in a most pristine and isolated place akin to a land when time began!  We bundled up and put the dinghy in the water so we could enjoy this solitary place~