Phoenix Hunter: Burnaby Narrows also known as Dolomite Narrows.

June 24 and 25th we were lucky to experience the lowest tides of the summer. Pretty much the lowest tides of the year.

On June 24th it was a - 0.55 ft tide and on June 25th a -0.64 ft tide. And both tides were at a reasonable hour of the day!

We did a little look around the low tide in Murchison area around 8 am or so.

Harlequin Ducks

Lots of sea urchins

Jim is fishing for sea urchin - the roe is a delicacy - apparently but I'm never need to know!

Cutting up the sea urchin. There are millions of them and they are getting out of control and eating up the kelp beds so we don't feel badly catching a couple.

The sea urchin's mouth parts are called - Aristotle's Lantern. So says the biologist on board.

The sea urchin roe.

I did not try any and apparently it was not as good as he hoped so rest of the captured sea urchins were set free to munch down more kelp beds.

Jim - the biologist decided the best place to be for the lowest tide of the year was Burnaby Narrows - also known as Dolomite Narrows. So after the tour about in the skiff in the intertidal area of Murchison we let go of the mooring bouy and headed south to Burnaby Island.

The map has the pink dots of where Murchison anchorage is located and the Burnaby/Dolomite Narrows.

When we arrived at Burnaby Narrows we discovered there was a mooring bouy right where we wanted to be. Just waiting for us!

There was quite the current and it was full of kelp but easy to get when we approached upstream of it.

Look at that kelp!

We went for a little skiff ride through the Narrows at high tide.

The Narrows are full of rocks and reefs that dry at low tide and we had no intention of going through them with Phoenix Hunter. But we went with the skiff. There are private range markers in the channel.