Circumnavigating Vancouver Island: Flotilla Day 2 - Nanaimo to Campbell River
by Laura Domela 25 Aug 2018 07:37 PDT
Strait of Georgia humpbacks © Laura Domela
We left the docks at Nanaimo just before 6:00 a.m. for the long cruise north to Campbell River (about 75nm). The forecast for the Strait of Georgia was quite good, so we figured we’d skip our planned stop in Comox and have a long (but hopefully calm) day on the Strait of Georgia. The downside to the calm conditions is smoke. Visibility was about one mile most of the day. At least it made for a few cool photos!
A few hours out of Nanaimo, we found a group of three (or five) humpbacks and stopped to watch them for a bit. This was the most exciting thing that happened all day, and that’s a good thing! The Strait of Georgia can be a truly nasty body of water, and we all appreciated the calm—glassy even—conditions, even if it was a little boring.
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