The flight was complicated by flying so low and crossing and recrossing the international border, that we had to file unique flight plans to prevent being picked up as potential drug dealers . All went well and we were looking to confirm a statement attributed to Juan de Fuca that a tall stone pillar was to the north of the entrance of the straight.
Old pictures supplied by the provincial museum, show a pronounced pillar off shore tothe south .
The passage when we visited . Captain Cook in his log ,drifted out of the Pacific approaching shore just south of the entrance to the straight and exactly were Sir Francis Drake in a number of reports was said to have seen land. One of the reasons the straight was a while being rediscovered and charted, is that unless you approach it from the north, where it opens up just by coasting, with a fair wind at your back, you don't see it.