Lasquetti

 


The Campbell River Fishing Dock


There is a ton of water that moves past Campbell River. Out by Cape Mudge when the tidal current opposes the wind it can get downright nasty. We left Campbell River prepared to sail south in a forcasted North wind 5-15. What we got was dead flat calm for thirty miles. The most we had to contend with were a few swirls in the water.


Rather than go into Comox and pay for moorage we decided to anchor off Sandy Island . Not a great anchorage but probably all right for this weather. 



Night started to settle upon us. I shot into bed only to be told by the trustworthy more observant first mate that we were on the verge of going aground. I thought bullshit but was startled by our depth of 9 feet with the tide still dropping. Well let us get that three million watt flashlight and find the mooring float out there in the darkness. We turned it on shone it for one minute and the battery died. Things worked out and we found and tied to a mooring buoy. While all this was going on Yammy was noticing some odd stuff in the night sky. A string of evenly spaced lights was appearing and then disappearing across an arc in the sky. 


It is not that impressive in this time lapse picture taken on a moving boat. 
It didn't take me long to figure out that this was Elon Musk's satellite network. 
Later the next night we saw another display at Jedediah Island. Here is a sketch of what we saw.




It looks like it only takes one man to change the night sky for the forseeable future. 




Next day we motored down past Denman Island and then ten miles out into the strait to Lasquetti Island. We did sail a bit in a puff of wind mid strait.

 Here we anchored in False Bay and went to shore to have a couple of brews at the local pub.
The residents of Lasquetti have fought off efforts to have a regular car ferry service. Instead they have a small passenger ferry. They also fought off efforts to hook Lasquetti up to the power grid.





Next day we were off to Jedediah Island close by. I will give that it's own post.

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