April 23, 2016
A trough (windy squally weather) was due to arrive, and our plan was head to the most protected anchorage in the park: Torrent Bay. Meanwhile, though, we’d noticed the weather seemed to be lagging behind the forecasts. It was still a beautiful clear morning, and we might have time to do two more outings before heading on.
With that, we went around the headland to place called Sandfly Bay Lagoon. To save time, we took the boat down there instead of taking the dinghy, anchoring just behind the headland. It wasn’t a great anchorage but it would do for this outing.
Sandlfy Bay is basically a lagoon formed by a long arm of a sandspit that nearly encloses it, leaving just a small pass. We were shocked to see a sailboat in there–how did he do that? Local knowledge, I think. Knowing it was deep enough for him to get in at high tide, and having seen other people do it and succeed. As we went through the pass, we saw it would be deep enough for us, but I don’t know that we’d have the guts to try it.
Once inside the lagoon, it felt like being on a small lake with thick forest along the shoreline. We crossed the “lake” to the far side, looking for the entrance to a waterway called Falls River.
After we spotted it, we headed up to see how far we could go. (That will be the subject of the next blog post.) –Cyndi
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