July 7th, 2014
After loading up with supplies from the Co-Op we set sail outside of the Ucluelet Inlet up Loudoun Channel toward Pipestem Inlet. The entire way up was about 13-15 miles, not very far considering the journeys a couple days before. The problem was there are underwater rocks everywhere just below the surface that would wreck a boat, and none of them are marked on the water, just in charts.
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| Leaving Ucluelet |
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| Following Rowena through the rocks |
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| Local fisherman |
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| Wonderful landscape |
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| Following Rowena |
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| Following Rowena |
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| Following Rowena (there wasn't much else to do) |
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| Lucky Creek inlet across from where we stayed. |
Finally, about 4:30pm, we tucked into an anchorage behind Bazett Island. I noticed two things right off the bat. First the reason brown water was flowing from the side of the gunnels was the holding tank was full. And second the reason my chart plotter wasn't showing the area correctly was I hadn't changed C-Map Cartridges. Katie rushed out with the kayak and paddled around the area a while.
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| Anchorage behind Bazett Island |
After dinner we got out the dinghy's and looked for a way to get into the hot springs.
Instead we found another inlet where we watched a bear from a healthy distance.
A man lived on a small island as we went into the inlet. He said he'd not talked to another person in about 3 days. He had some set up on his small rock island as you can see below. He was nice enough to direct us to Luck Creek's waterfall across the inlet.
Lucky Creek was about a mile long before you reached the waterfall.
After our dinghy ride we returned to the boats, had a night cap and went to sleep.
July 8th, 2014
The next day we split up with Rowena. They went down to Effingham Bay in the Broken Group Islands, and we went back to Ucluelet to pump out the holding tank. We motored down to Ucluelet, but the winds had picked up to 20 knots inside the inlet by the time we arrived. We couldn't find a pump out station, so we joined Rowena in Effingham Bay.
The anchorage was crowded and had a steep bottom. The anchor didn't bite at first, so we ended up doing an anchor watch all night. The next morning we took another dinghy ride after breakfast.
Afterward we hoisted anchor to head off to Flemming Island, to stop at the Port Aberni Yacht Club's remote dock at Smuggler's Pass.
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