It rained steadily all day and will probably continue raining all night. We were certainly lucky to have had that break in the weather yesterday when we explored Butedale.
Had a fairly strong head-wind today but still made good time.
Towards the end of my 10-12 watch, I was congratulating myself on not encountering any big ships. Suddenly, I had a strange feeling there was a big ship nearby. I turned on the radar, and sure enough, there was a big blob in back of us. I turned around and looked out the back window. Yikes! There was a huge cruise ship coming right at us! Boy, did I change course in a hurry! I made a bee-line for the right bank. Five minutes later, the Nieuw Amsterdam zoomed by down the center of the channel, right where we had been.
A little while later, a northbound cruise ship hailed us on the VHF to warn us the wind was blowing 32 knots in Milbanke Sound. That was very, very considerate of him, and I thanked him, even though we weren't planning on going to Milbanke Sound; we were going to duck behind an island, out of the wind.
Earlier in the day, a guy on a northbound sailboat had talked with us on the VHF for several minutes. He was headed to Haines to spend the (brrr) winter.
The only untoward incident of the day occurred shortly after we anchored in Oliver Cove. Roy was putting out the crab trap. He let go of it for a few seconds to get a longer line. The single knot came untied and down went the trap, glub glub glub. In 32 feet of water. Cold water. I don't think Roy's going to dive for it. Oh well, it's no great loss; we never caught any crabs anyway.
This is a nice, quiet, peaceful little cove. It's very calm, but we put out two anchors anyway.
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