A Tight Cove Squeeze
Freeman Passage Cove on Porcher Peninsula

  We are slowly heading "outside" to cross Hecate Strait to the Queen Charlottes. We tie up on one of three permanent buoys in a tiny cove. We hear some buoy thumps through the hull during the night. In the morning, we find ourselves 10' from the shore and with 5.7' registering on a handheld depth sounder off our stern, thanks to a dead low tide and full moon.    
                     
   
     
               
     
                     
   
     
                     
         
    Contrary to his usual attentiveness, the captain is so engrossed in his book that he is ALMOST impervious to our situation - the thrall of the book and the knowledge that the tide has turned contribute equally to his serenity.  
         
   

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