Sail to Turn Pt Lighthouse

July 3, 2021 – A beautiful sail to some of our favorite places. New Channel was spectacular with harbor seals, bald eagles, Canada geese with their growing gosling, pigeon guillemots, black oystercatchers, new bull kelp forests. We decided to sail along Stuart Island to Turn Point Lighthouse to put ourselves in range of a pod of orcas who happened to be northbound from Sidney. With the border still closed by Canada (since last year due to Covid) we sat there with binoculars watching the whale watch boats just a couple miles away. Unfortunately, the orcas took the west side of Moresby Island putting themselves out of view. We continued our journey around the north side of the gorgeous Stuart Island and continued down to Flattop Island. Harbor seals and their pups were warming up in the sunshine along the shoreline, pigeon guillemots were looking for dinner and the layers of time in the rocks bursted with color. South of Flattop we had a nice encounter with many harbor porpoise.