Two nights in Port McNeill

We had some things to do that required cell service and the Internet so we’ve been at North Island Marina for two night. The Marina is open. There have been maybe 3-4 traveling boats at the dock. Very VERY quiet here. Of course the marina would normally be a little quieter in May but there would be a lot of Americans at the dock stopping on their way north to Alaska.

We saw an American pleasure boat on AIS a couple of days ago and contacted them on the radio. On talking to them we found out they were two boats travelling together. They were allowed to enter Canadian waters to take their boats to Alaska only because they were residents of Alaska and able to prove that to Canadian Border Services with documents of place of residence. They were permitted to travel through BC waters but not allowed to go to shore or to a marina. But they could anchor up along the trip. We have not seen any other American boats, not even fishing boats making their way north.

There were a couple of Canadian boats at the dock the first night we were here. They were heading up Seymour Inlet the next morning. We are thinking of going up Seymour Inlet as well on this trip. We’ve never been up there. Good place to isolate!

We are heading off this morning. All our tasks completed. We are going back into The Broughtons. Jim needs to get prawns! Failure to get prawns is not an option!