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<\/a><\/a><\/a>Jupiter, traveling north through Desolation Sound to the Broughton Archipelago, must transit any one of several possible routes, all with tidal rapids. Many of these surgewaters, often running to ten knots, are rich with dangerous turbulence, overfalls, rips and whirlpools. Most can be safely crossed only at or near slack tide, a few brief minutes when the tide is high turning to ebb or low turning to flood, approximately every six hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Devil’s Hole<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1319-1.jpg?resize=740%2C987&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Greene Point Rapids<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1320.jpg?resize=740%2C987&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Whirlpool Rapids<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC04372.jpg?resize=740%2C493&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\nUnless you are a married to a mentat predictions for tidal slack-water time must be teased out of published references or extracted skeptically from the newest electronic charts. Calculations for reference stations and secondary offspring must be carefully worked and confirmed by on site surveillance before piloting the boat into a cascade of trouble. On Jupiter’s chosen route we crossed five legendary rapids in two days.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
When multiple rapids are plied sequentially, timing transits and stops becomes a hesitation waltz. Synchronizing two morning passages through Yaculta and Gillard Passage afforded us a leisurely afternoon studying a double tide-turn of the substantial cataract at Canoe Cove below Dent Island Lodge, where we moored for the night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Jupiter waiting for slack tide<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC04562.jpg?resize=740%2C416&ssl=1\")
<\/a>..and her crew waiting for lunch<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC04575.jpg?resize=740%2C493&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Canoe Cove at full flood<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC04582.jpg?resize=740%2C987&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\nAs with humans in hotels, check-out time for boats in marinas is clearly defined, although in the case of Dent Island a vessel can only get onto, or off, the docks at slack tide due to the otherwise disruptive current.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nThe following morning an early slide through the eddies of Devil’s Hole and Dent Rapids at high slack dictated a five hour dalliance with nature before meeting low slack at Greene Point Rapids just 12 miles northwest. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nPuttering into the deep arms off the Cordero Channel, we found a massive fish farm, hundreds of acres of newly timbered land, a large pod of Pacific white-sided dolphin, eagles solo and paired, and a lone grizzly prowling the waters edge.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Focused on finding bear<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC01316.jpg?resize=740%2C494&ssl=1\")
<\/a>…we sighted a Grizzly on shore.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC01320.jpg?resize=740%2C494&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\nLast in the lineup, Whirlpool Rapids falls under the influence of entirely distinct bathymetric parameters. Even slow tugs pulling massive log booms may pass here at slack.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n