This morning I paddled out the entrance channel, hoping to get some more shots of that eagle, but he never showed. I waited and waited, but there just wasn’t anything to shoot. The tide was still going out, running at about 2 knots. I paddled back and forth for almost an hour, hoping for something to show up that I could photograph. The only thing I saw was this Devil’s Club.

Not very interesting. I kept looking at the water at the entrance, thinking I might try to paddle all the way outside. I decided to check it out. I got to within about 75 feet of the opening and could see rips all the way across, and there was a bit of a swell running. Nope, I wasn’t brave enough to try to make it through there. However, I thought maybe it would be a bit tamer at slack, which was in about 30 minutes. So, I waited some more. Finally, the rips started receding to the center of the channel, so I decided to paddle along the shore where the water was smoother. I paddled like crazy and made it through without any problem at all. Once outside, however, the swells were bigger. I thought about it for about 30 seconds and decided I’d better head back in.

When I got back to the boat, Al suggested heading on down to Cameron Cove, on Princess Royal Island. We galvanized into aciton and had the anchor up and were on our way in about 15 minutes. The wind had come up a bit in Squally Channel, and there were tide rips to deal with, but after about 5 miles the seas smoothed out and we had a nice run down to Cameron. We spotted a humpback whale feeding in Whale Channel, but he was too far away to get any decent shots.