The Ritz Carlton of the North.........

Okay, probably not quite as fancy as the Ritz, but certainly a fair cut above any of the other marinas up here....we are at Shearwater Resort and Marina, in, (wait for it)......Shearwater, BC. We're about 2 miles from Bella Bella, also known as Waglisla (it's First Nation name). Here's a shot of the dock at Shearwater:

As you can see, it's a beautiful sunny day here in Northern paradise....











Last 2 nights we spent at anchor in Kakushdish Harbour, where the spirit bears supposedly hang out. We didn't see one. We didn't see any wildlife at all, except a couple of really huge, loud herons. It rained most of the time both days, so we were happy to have our anchor down in good holding mud.

To get from Ocean Falls to Kakushdish, we went through Gunboat Passage, which is kind of scary-looking when we looked at it on the charts - it's very narrow, and FULL of big rocks and nasty currents. However, everything we read says that it can be taken, and is the shortest passage to Shearwater and Bella Bella. So, since it was early and there was no wind (because it was foggy and rainy), we decided to go on through. We took it really slowly and had no problems. It was, however, scary.....the rocks are huge and completely line both banks of the passage, with lots of shoals along the way. But, we did it successfully:

And now, tomorrow morning, we're off to meet up with Mel and Bernice aboard Reel Dream out on an island in the big, bad ocean..............and we'll hope for lots and lots of halibut and ling cod!