Swanson Channel

With sunny skies, light winds and calm seas, we were making a leisurely three knots under full sail.  “These things aim for you”, Ken stated as a matter of fact.  I was pitting fresh pie cherries in the cockpit and looked up to see this behemoth bearing down on us.  In Adventures in Solitude, Grant Lawrence describes the BC Ferries as “lumbering white whales of steel, frothing forward, giant mouths agape, ready to swallow anything in their paths.”  We watched as she silently slid by us.