06:20 It's a quiet lovely morning in Petroglyph Cove as we bring up the anchor caked with mud. There is a lone eagle watching us depart. We're heading back out into the Pacific Ocean today, leaving behind Kyuquot Sound and venturing down to Esperanza Inlet. We motor with the sails out to help stabilize the boat. We have 4-6 foot swells with occasional 8 foot steep. The wind is coming from behind off the starboard side and then later the port at a max of 16 knots. We have one whale sighting from a distance and see one eagle catching fish in the ocean. We follow Gillam Channel into Esperanza Inlet, turn to port toward Port Eliza and cruise into Queen Cove at 10:40. There are two Ketches here already. We see one on the AIS and have heard them both on the radio. I make a late breakfast before we take the dinghy out to explore. It is too breezy to go outside the cove. We stick to the shore line and follow Park River up a ways until it becomes too shallow. By late afternoon both ketches pull up anchor and we have this whole Cove to ourselves. I bake cookies then heat up the Tex Mex Casserole for dinner. The wind has died down to nothing. If you stick your head out of the companion way, you can hear the moan of the entrance buoy from the ocean. Today's stats: sea temp 60.8, air temp 61, engine hours 4.6, total trip miles 713.8, nautical miles 26.9, ocean temp 45, watermaker 3 hours, GPS coordinates 49.52.824N / 126.58.963W.
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