Greeenway Sound, Broughton Island
Our friends Doug and Nancy arrived on Friday. Doug, Rich and I took a hike over to Billy Proctor's museum across on Shoal Bay. This is the same hike I took with Dan and Madeline, two years ago, in 2008, when we were last at Echo Bay.
On Saturday we relaxed, read, and in the evening we enjoyed Pierre's famous pig roast on the Weber 8 million.
Sunday morning we took Doug and Nancy to Waddington Bay, so that they could experience anchoring out. In the afternoon the sun came out and the winds started to build. This is when we saw the anchor dance. Two power boats were rafted together, held in place by an anchor of one of the boats, or so they thought. As the winds continued and the afternoon wore on to cocktail hour, their anchor started to drag, closer and closer to us. Now we were watching and not in any immediate danger but others in the bay started to get concerned. Finally one of the boats in the anchorage blew their horn and another went over in their dingy to alert them. Well, we suspect that the folks on these two boats had already started their happy hour which ended abruptly. After a scurry of activity, their started their engines and tried to bring up the anchor, while they were still rafted together. This did not work so well, so they disconnected and the anchored boat lifted anchor and re-anchored, still not putting out enough rode. The second boat, did backward circles in the harbor trying to decide whether to raft up or just put down their own anchor. Eventually they put down their own anchor a distance away from the first boat. Of course, others in the anchorage are watching this the whole time. Finally one other boat got concerned about his own anchor and re-anchored as well. After they were finished the winds started to diminish and calm was restored to the anchorage.
Monday morning we went back to Echo Bay so Doug and Nancy could catch their plane back to Seattle which was due to leave at 12:30 pm. As we waited we filled one of our propane tanks and topped off our fuel tanks. Their plane was over 2 hours late leaving Seattle so it did not arrive to pick them up at Echo Bay until 3:00 pm and it still had to make stops at Greenway Sound Marina and Sullivan Bay Marina and Port Hardy before returning to Seattle. We hope they arrived safely.
After they left, Rich and I departed for Cypress Harbor, only to find the harbor filled with a fish farm operation. So we continued into Greenway Sound and found a small anchorage where we are tucked in for the night.
No worries,
SV Windarra
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Doug & Nancy got back to Kenmore about 6:30p Monday evening. The flight back was particularly fun (for Doug) because of the multiple landings ... with him in the right seat. The (young...High School it seemed??) pilot had never been to Green Sound, so missed it during the first flyover. (It was mismarked on his Garmin GPS database by about 3 miles). Doug actually did help him by asking for the Sectional and then suggesting they go back north and explore the large east facing bay on Broughton Island. Lots of steep banking turns after takeoff in the narrow inlets and bays. After fueling at Port McNeil, it was a straight shot back to Kenmore which took us straight down the spine of Vancouver Island. Our island flight turned into a high alpine flight with glaciers and sparkling tanzanite-blue alpine lakes in snow fields. Kewl
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