Entering Booker Lagoon from Cullen Harbour is a fun experience. Booker Passage is narrow, tree and bolder lined, but relatively short. Taken at slack it is not difficult and there is plenty of depth. What you don't want to deal with is another boat coming the other way, especially at low tide because at the narrowest point there isn't much room to pass. I would have liked to have taken some video or pictures during the run through but was busy making sure I stayed in the middle. Exiting the passage into the fairly large Booker Lagoon feels like discovering a hidden place. The lagoon seems big after squeezing through the narrow pass.
There are coves spread around the lagoon in every direction. I was pleased to see only a couple of the coves occupied. I made my way to starboard where I suspected there might be two open ones to investigate. Navionics still shows fish farms in this end of the lagoon but they are no longer there and people probably avoid this end for that reason. I dropped anchor in a nice little shallow cove that had a great view of the entire lagoon.
There was a breeze in the afternoons but limited fetch so no real wave action. For the few days I stayed I hardly saw another boat. It was very quiet. Almost perfect. The only thing missing was sunshine for much of the day. The lagoon is within reach of the Queen Charlotte Strait fog and it being August, there was fog every morning. It was cool, damp, and interesting for a while but not great for solar powering the batteries. Never fun to have to run the engine to keep the batteries charged and it was necessary two days of my stay here.
It was time to find somewhere with a bit more sun.