We spent one night in Booker Lagoon. There is a very narrow channel into the lagoon with a verystrong current. The lagoon is best entered on a slack tide. We went in and out on a low water slack tide. So it's all tide dependant and the tide is not always at the time of day that is most convenient to travel.
On the way to Booker Lagoon we saw quite the display by a couple of Humpback whales.
Booker Lagoon was a nice little spot. We should have planned a longer stay there and put down the prawn pots or the crab pots. But because of the tides and our desire to push north we headed up the Port McNeil the next slack low water at 1:30 the next afternoon.
Early morning mist in Booker Lagoon.
We spent 4 nights in Port McNeil. Because we couldn't leave Booker until later in the day we needed at least two full days to do laundry - groceries and a few other errands. We wanted to finds something we could hang off the swim step as a "self re-boarding device" for the cat. We are thinking she might go overboard again! She's a daring little thing! We bought some burlap sacks - we will tie them to the swim step and if she falls off she could grab them with her claws - that's our hope!
We saw a couple in Port McNeil that we met last year - had a little visit one evening.
There was a Nordic Tug across from us " Sea Hawg" Three men from Arkansas. They had dropped a couple a crab pots just on the other side of the breakwater in front of the marina and got a whole bunch of huge crabs!
We left early Saturday morning - heading north to spend the night in Clam Cove on Nigei Island.
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