0900 - Skies are mixed. Sun broken, low gray clouds scurrying on a NW wind to destinations past. We will leave Blind Channel in a couple of hours on the final pulse of the flood tide. We will ride the remnant of flood to the confluence with Phillips Channel and turn NW with the slack and beginning ebb through Green Point Rapids. We are heading toward the Broughton Achipelago, the largest marine park in BC. Today's destination will be Forward Harbor, and an excellent opportunity for bear sightings. Literature advises to carry pots and pans as you trundle over to the bathing beach at Bessborough. The hardware may be employed to call the bears to your cookout. Evidently they enjoy a picnic. Tuesday represents our first good chance to reappear in Johnstone Strait without the strong northwesterlies that have persisted for the past few days. Weather permitting we will make for Chatham Channel and the entrance to the southern Broughtons on Wednesday. A few days are planned for the Broughtons but months are needed to explore this natural haven with a human history dating back 12,000 years. The area is remote so there should be much to communicate toward the end of the week as we either turn SE toward Desolation or NW toward Telegraph Cove - we shall see...