Land Ho! Again

7 July - We were quite close to land (about 44 NM from Cape Flattery, even closer to Victoria Island BC) before we saw land due to fog and low visibilty. Finally I spied the Cape out of the mist and fog which had shrouded it from our view for at least a day. I showed Henry and called JImena but she was sleeping and not excited enough by the event to get up, don a PFD, and come up into the cockpit to see.

Land Ho! at around 40 NM and 24 days out of Honolulu, Hawaii

We had already been seeing a ton of commercial ship traffic on our AIS, which was mildly disconcerting since our radar was inoperative (it gave up the ghost on the Mexico-Hawaii leg, after we op checked it in the marina before leaving). Large ships would appear on the AIS then loom out of the fog within a couple of miles as though the AIS prophet had summoned them.

Ship traffic coming out of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in low visibility conditions