2012 Trip 3 - Pacific Swift

Great beginning to our trip today. Many returning trainees welcoming newer ones and a lovely south wind that allowed us to set sail shortly after leaving Victoria. We set sail at Trial Island and enjoyed a boisterous sail northward into the Gulf Islands. Making our way north through Active Pass we were met with a calm spell for a period until the wind returned as we neared Jervis Inlet, our destination. Upon entering Jervis Inlet we found our selves sailing again with a favourable breeze. Our final destination for the second day was up into Princess Louisa Inlet, a small spectacularly beautiful filled with many waterfalls. We counted 34 waterfalls in this short inlet . We were in good time to make the narrows at Malibu Rapids after sailing the whole of Jervis Inlet so we took the opportunity to stop for a swim in the warm waters near Camp Mailibu. Transiting the pass at 1600hrs allowed us to be at anchor by supper time. What an unbelievable setting for a one sitting deck dinner. Surrounded by six thousand foot mountains rising out of the inlet, snow capped peaks all around and waterfalls, waterfalls, waterfalls. Great games on deck as we enjoyed the changing colours as the evening approached.