Port Neville to April Point Cove - 9½ hours, 52.4 miles

We were going to leave at 6 AM to catch Seymour Narrows at slack at 1 PM. However, the fog was so thick and it was still dark so we tried to wait out the fog. We saw two otters up on the dock. As soon as they saw us they were back in the water very quickly. We finally started engines about 11 AM. The tides run quite fast here and we had to fight an incoming tide to get off the dock without hitting anything. Fortunately Fred and the twin Perkins won. Fred really needed the radar this morning. The fog burned off to a spectacular sunny day. We have high mountain peaks to port (left) and green rolling hills to starboard (right). There is very little other traffic. We have a sailboat and two fishing back in the distance. Our plan is to anchor just before Seymour Narrows at Plumper Sound until slack tide at 7 PM. We arrived on schedule at 5 PM & anchored in a pretty bay. However, we are near resorts and larger communities now and there are small speed boats all over the place. We enjoyed the sun until time to start the engines again at 6:30 PM. We were right on time to enter the Narrows. However, a cruise ship (Coral Princess) was bigger and faster so we followed her through. We are heading to April Point Cove which has a small anchorage and an upscale fishing resort. As we are getting closer to our destination the sun finally set and there is no moon. Beautiful stars, but they weren’t any help to us. We were guided almost completely by the chart potter (GPS). As we neared the cove we had our spotlight on looking for the buoy marking the bar into the cove. The buoy was only visible by our spotlight hitting the reflective numbers. Yes, we were on the correct course and entered the cove with the red buoy to starboard. The dock is visible with several large vessels (75-100 feet). The anchorage is small and shallow but we slipped past the docks and saw there was one sailboat already anchored. We really couldn’t see the shore so we anchored with the dock, sailboat and GPS to guide us. We got a good hold in 20 feet. We are both exhausted. We haven’t traveled after dark since we were in San Francisco Bay.