After a great intertidal experience we left Burnaby Narrows and planned to go to De La Beche Cove - a bit of a detour north instead of heading south right away. Just to spend more time in the park and also get some water before heading south.
It was a lovely day. Sunny and calm. We were going north In Juan Perez Sound.
We stopped into Haswell Bay for a look around and see if it was a promising anchorage. We didn't think it was very pretty and turned around. There are quite a few anchorages around and it's nice to have the time to check them out. And we are seeing so few pleasure boat.
We planned to go to De La Beche Cove but there was another anchorage - Sac Bay - that we decided to check out first - thinking it was described so beautifully in the Douglass book - reminiscent of Patagonia with "high black granite walls with stunted trees that struggle to survive" It was just a little north of De La Beche Cove. As we were heading towards the bay there was a couple in a small dingy buzzing past us - we figured they were probably in Sac Bay
When we went into Sac Bay there were TWO sailboats in there. We went in and motored around a bit and decided we'd head over to De La Beche - just a few miles away - we heard it was a lovely spot.
It was a lovely spot - and it was empty except for us.
We are expecting now that we are getting closer to July that we will see more and more pleasure boats. But these are the first pleasure boats that's we've seen since leaving the central coast.
After a night in De La Beche Cove we had to set out a little later the next morning because of the very low tide. The entrance to the Cove is very shallow and narrow and at low tide it was even more so.
We decide we would go back to Anna Inlet for a night and then get some water at the Shelter Island water station before making our way south to Rose Harbour.
We are enjoying the park and really liked Anna Inlet and have plenty of time to be in the park.
It looks like I didn't take any photos in De La Beche Cove. So instead -- More Anna Inlet photos.
It was calm seas and a sunny day. We've not had rain for a few days now!
We dropped anchor nice and close to shore in Anna Inlet and hoped we might see some bears. No bears.
A group from the Morseby Explorers came in around 5 for a look around shore and then left.
A sailboat tour came in around 7:30 Ocean Light II and dropped anchor quite a ways behind us.
Anna Inlet is one of the prettiest anchorages we've been and one of our favourite.
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