Shoal Harbour to Forward Harbour, and on to the Broughton Archipelago
Entry to Waddington Cove (I think). At any rate, somewhere in the Broughtons May 19-20, 2015 Tidal schedules and our pre-ordained stopping places had kept our daily distances relatively short for several days, and this day would be no different. Shoal Bay to Forward Harbour covered only 20 miles, but necessitated another wait of several hours (at Whirlpool Rapids). An easy day, warm and sunny (and another swim for Mathias). We got through Greenpoint Rapids easily, but reached Whirlpool 2 hours past slack water, the tide flooding against us. I thought we might be able to sneak through on the strength of Ripple's 9 horse iron jenny, and we easily crept up to the rapids in the back eddies off to the side. We pulled into the slipstream of the rapids at full throttle and got almost to the nav marker on the shore that marks the narrowest point in the rapids. Speed over ground dropped quickly to zero, and we peeled off and circled back to the side where we...