Adams Harbour at the north end of Calvert Island

August 9th (Friday) 
After getting some last things wrapped up while still having the use of the wifi, we started our engine. We took some time to take some amp clamp and voltage readings with our new alternator and regular hook up, and then pulled up anchor. We motored out of Meay Inlet and around to Adams Harbour on the northern tip of Calvert Island where we were by ourselves in a beautiful anchorage. 

View from one of the beaches at Adams Harbour.

We set out our crab trap, and then relaxed to enjoy our beautiful anchorage. 

August 10th (Saturday) 

Jason and I headed out in our kayaks in the morning, packed for the whole day. We paddled out to the outside of the outer islands, and kayaked along the shore watching as the surge from the swells pushed up against the shore, flowing into all of the cracks and crevices, and then creating waterfalls on its retreat. Even though I have visited open ocean beaches ever since I was a kid, watching the swells and the surge, and the dramatic change in height as the waves rush in and out is still amazing to me and very cool to watch. 

Rocks on the outer edge of Starfish island.

Eventually we wrapped back around to the protected side of the islands where we met a very curious seal. He kept coming up and looking at us, sometimes from over there and sometimes from over here. Pretty much every second time when he came up he seemed to announce his approaching presence by letting out a rush of big bubbles. We would hear them come to the surface, look and see them, and then watch him pop up and look at us. The other times he came up silently, but only came up with just his eyes, and then went right back down. It was funny to watch him.

We paddled to the furthest beach on this northern end of Calvert, which would be the one closest to West beach, which is around the point, but there was no trail to it. It was a very pretty beach almost on a point and it had a sand bar sticking out from the middle of it connecting it to an island, and of course as the tide went out the sand bar got bigger, and it connected to more islands. 

Here we found a log and had our picnic lunch.  

Before we had left home in the morning the sun had come out and gotten our hopes up for a sunny day, but soon the clouds had rolled back in, and it was actually somewhat cold in the offshore breeze. After lunch we paddled on along the shore passing North Beach, and then pulled in to check out Little Wolf Beach. 

Out from the beach it was surprisingly shallow, and there were some big boulders that would be dry at low tide making it much harder to get into the beach. In amongst the rocks was a very thick kelp forest barrier as well, although there was one small open channel for passage. There was also three rock columns out from the beach that appeared to be the broken remains of an island, and they made the view from the beach very scenic. 
We paddled on to Wolf Beach. We made a fire pit, gathered some wood, made a nice bench, found some wiener sticks, and then, after exploring around a bit we got an evening fire going. 

We roasted sausages over the fire and had them on wraps we had cooked in the morning before leaving. It was delicious, and so nice to have a beach fire and a fire cooked dinner.  It was a beautiful evening! 

The sun came out for maybe an hour in the early evening, and then tucked its way behind the clouds again. The breeze calmed right off in the evening, and we had a very beautiful calm paddle back home passing by the many other sandy beaches.