Day 2

After only a few hours of sleep we woke up excited to make the next 9am high tide departure from our anchorage across the les pillars de Pierre rock shallows. As the hours passed we endured light winds, short segment of rapids, and sunny skies as the current drove us slowly eastward to our next planned afternoon destination just inside the south channel marine park sanctuary where we where greeted by many white backs (beluga whales) upon entry which surrounded the boat in the distance.  Finally arriving at the bank de ille aux lieves towards the end of the late afternoon low tide cycle, where rather then anchor as planned,  we decided to contine to drift slowly as we waited for the early evening high tide to carry us forward. After several hours of drifting and enjoying the picturesque north shore hill scapes as the setting sun turned the dusk skies shades of purple behind them before setting and illuminating the orange crescent moon just above the horizon. As the high tide cycle approached the currents drove us towards our next overnight anchorage a mile past the brightly lit city of Rivière du loop, where we motored inside the protection of port de gros  cacauna  break walls to drop anchor at 12.30 am.

Written by Mario