Chief Mathew’s Bay to Chief Mathew’s Bay.

We had fought off the horseflies – or maybe they are deer flies – to drop the prawn pots on our way into the bay and then early in the morning after pulling anchor we pulled them up. With much disappointment! One Measly prawn and 33 humpback shrimp! I didn’t even take a photo. But it was as dinner. And the horseflies were not yet moving around so much when we pulled the pots.

So a few photos as we motored up to the end of the Gardner Canal and then back to Chief Matthew’s bay.

You can’t get very close to the top of the Gardner Canal because it is very silted up and shallows up very quickly.

It is a beautiful area. Just stunning mountains that are 1500 – 1700 metres high. With snow and glaciers all year long.

The head of the canal is about 14 Nm from Chief Mathew’s Bay and not suitable for anchoring.

It is hard to describe how bad the horseflies were. Even this video gives you only a small glimpse of how many hundred were out there trying to get us the moment we went outside. Thank goodness for our screens. We just dropped the anchor as fast as well could and ran back inside.

There was a small boat that came in and anchored up for the night on the opposite side of the bay. There was a little skiff of some kind that went up the river. There is a small caving on the shore right around the mouth of the river. We motored by it the next morning. There was a sign on the cabin but we couldn’t get close enough to red the sign.

It would have been really interesting to take a little trip up the river – except for the horseflies and the skiff not working.

When we left the next morning we took a motor up Kemano to see the docks at the big power site there.

Docks at Kemano