God's Pocket

September 7-8, 2022

Although we did not want to leave our Matilda Inlet anchorage, we pulled up anchor around mid morning on September 7th, and headed out. 

I had a couple of pregnancy medical appointments to attend, so it worked out well for us to be able to be near Tofino.  

We had timed our departure such that we were passing through the narrowest and most intricate channels around slack current. 

The waters around Tofino are interesting because there are huge areas that dry at low tide.  At high tide this makes the area look very deceiving as there looks like there is a lot more water and more navigable areas than there actually are.   

Coming up Lemmens Inlet at Meares Island we were absolutely astounded by the number of crab-trap buoys that littered the narrow channel.  It was a maze of floats and shallow areas, and we were glad that we had timed the currents for our first time through the area.   

Up in Lemmens Inlet we checked out the Adventure Cove anchorage, but it had two floating barges moored inside, so we turned and headed over to the anchorage called God’s Pocket. 

It was free of boats, but protected and glassy calm and sunny.  It had been blowing about 20 knots out in Clayoquot Sound when we came through, and since they were forecasting winds of up for 40 knots, we were happy to see that the anchorage we had chosen was glassy calm so far.   

Since we were only about 4 nautical miles away from Tofino it was an easy trip to make in Kiki.  We went in to town once in the afternoon after getting anchored, and then we were back again on the morning of the 8th.   

On that morning it was low tide for our tip in and it was very interesting to see the transformation that the area had undergone.  What had appeared to be wide-open stretches of water were now sandy islands, and massive mud flats.  It sure is nice to have GPS and a chart plotter for navigating through areas like that. 

We were anchored very close to an oyster farm and in the afternoon there was a workboat in the area. 

We were very interested in what they were doing, and it would have been neat to know more about how they farm and harvest oysters.   

Given how close we were to Tofino, it was surprising how poor our cell service was.  In fact, in the anchorage it was very poor and very spotty, such that it was almost unusable.  Sometime, perhaps when we have good internet, we will do some research into oyster farming.