“Early bird gets the worm,” Al chirps, at 0500 hrs this morning.  “But the wind is supposed to drop this afternoon,” I whine.  The wind was blowing 22 knots at Fanny Island, in Johnstone Strait, when we checked the weather last night, and the wind wasn’t supposed to drop until noon.  Unfortunately, when Al checks the conditions at Fanny Island at 0500 hrs this morning, it’s only blowing 3 knots.  So, it’s another early morning run.

As much as I hate getting up for these early morning runs, I have to admit that the lovely calm water makes it worth it.  We have wall-to-wall blue skies and flat water all the way up Johnstone Strait. 

I spotted a pod of dolphins feeding near Port Neville.  They couldn’t resist playing in our wake, so I tried to get some video of them, since taking still shots is impossible.  A few of them swam along with us, playing in our bow wake.  I’m hoping that when I edit the footage there will be enough good stuff to post on youTube.

We haven’t been to Grebe Cove in about 25 years, so we decided to check it out.  The cove was completely empty, and as lovely as we remembered.  

Al had no sooner put the Hummingbird feeder up, when we had our first customer, a female Rufous.  And, it wasn’t long before here mate wanted a taste of our delicious nectar.