After a day-and-a-half (2 nights) relaxing in Ikeda Cove (including a dip in beautiful but very cold Ikeda Creek), we decided to head around to Rode Harbour. As it turned out, the first 1.5 hours was a very uncomfortable rolly-polly motor with moderately-large seas (due to opposing current coming out of the inlets) and little wind. Things smoothed out soon after passing Garcin Rocks and we arrived relatively quickly at Rose Harbour due to a 1-2 knot current in our favour. In 2002 and 2011, we had had great dinners by Susan who lives in rose Harbour and does dinner for kayak groups, etc. We were lucky getting the single mooring buoy in Rose Harbour (not 3 as suggested by guide books) but learned there was no space for dinner until July 17th. We made a reservation for July 17th, even though our tentative plan was to do an overnight passage leaving Haida Gwaii on the 16th. One never knows with weather. (FYI: Susan is semi-retired, but now Charlotte-local Francis has joined Susan's team for cooking, etc. Contact Susan/Francis on VHF channel 6 by calling "Old Squaw".)
As we could not do dinner that night (or next day), we decided to continue on to Louscoone Inlet, to set us up to visit SGang Gwaay Haida Heritage Site (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) the next morning.
No other boat was in Louscoone's Etches Point Cove, but also, the mooring buoy of past years was also no longer there. So we had to anchor (Pelagia anchored in somewhat deep water -- 60' -- after being surprised by much much shallower water than up-to-date charts indicated... we may have touched the sandy bottom).
The winds really picked-up in the afternoon -- oddly, straight into the cove -- but died off by dinner time.
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