dixon entrance
7/11, day 59, 39 mi, 807 mi total
a nearly perfect day. the weather was absolutely beautiful – partly cloudy with a light breeze all day. it was a long day of paddling, but my favorites are days when we get to stay in the boat all day. it was beautiful. nothing that really stands out i guess, but hour and hour of ocean, beach, forest, and mountains. we’ve seen a lot of all of those things on this trip, but that scene never really grows old.
and we’ve got a postcard view of all that tonight, looking up into misty fjords… from the window of a sweet little forest service cabin. it’s simple, but perfect for us. we get a roof and a privy tonight. hooray!
had one view today that i haven’t seen all trip – my lap. every other day it’s been covered with a chart case but there was no need for it today… when i ordered charts last spring, i missed the one covering the area from cape fox (where we camped yesterday) to ketchikan somehow. i made a note to myself and figured we’d pick it up in prince rupert – surely it would be simple to find a chart for nearby waters in the major city/marine center of the area. i failed to appreciate that whole border thing. only one place in prince rupert carried any us charts, and they didn’t have the one i needed. so we’re navigating off the topo map for a few days, which has worked just fine. but dean keeps the topos, so i had nothing but the scenery to look at today. felt a little naked (lost?) this morning, but i think i could get used to it… blissful ignorance might be better than looking at the charts and trying to reconcile dean’s steering with them. :)
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