Another totally calm day. We've sure been lucky with the weather. It's cool and cloudy today, but no rain.
Anchored in peaceful, lovely, nearly deserted Brundidge Inlet of Dundas Island around 4:30. This is the northernmost anchorage of western Canada. We can see the mountains of Alaska in the distance.
Paddled around for two or three hours without seeing any sign of human habitation. The trees are very dense and grow nearly to the edge of the water. No roads, no trails, no houses, no signs--just uncorrupted nature in all her profligate splendor. The air is sweet and fresh and redolent of evergreen trees. The tide goes in and out very rapidly, and the difference between high tide and low tide is remarkable. We anchored in 31 feet of water, and by the time we ate supper, we were in 13 feet! Now that's a tide!
Roy put out the crab trap, but when he pulled it up, all it had in it (or rather, on it) was an enormous starfish. I'd never seen such a huge starfish; it must have been two feet in diameter.
Tomorrow, Alaska!
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