Friday, July 15, 2016 Port McNeill to Burly Bay 4 hours 39 miles

We love this place.  To get to MacKenzie Sound one has to pass through Kenneth Passage.  It is a rather narrow, dog-leg passage.  MacKenzie Sound is a fiord.  The walls are granite with trees sprouting out of them at the most curious angles and locations.  Long strands of Spanish moss hang from tree limbs and we are told there are many bears here (we didn’t see any though).  We always anchor in a cove behind Blair Islet.  We can see the soaring granite walls but feel cozy and sheltered.  We are anchored near the end of Hopetown Passage.  This passage is only passible at high water with local knowledge.  As the tide falls it creates rapids flowing overt the rocks at the entrance.  It sounds lovely.