Potts Lagoon – West Cracroft Island

Potts Lagoon – West Cracroft Island was the perfect spot for our first anchorage while in the Broughton Islands –

Potts Lagoon, named for Murray Clark Potts, the area’s first settler who staked a claim there, way back in 1908, is convenient for accessing the islands closest to Vancouver Island and Port McNeill, in the northern Johnstone Strait / Broughton Archipelago region of British Columbia, Canada. As we headed into the anchorage, we passed a logging business on shore and a few float homes.

Not much to report on our stay there, as we were mostly alone in the anchorage until later in the afternoon when a big Nordhavn joined us at anchor. It’s been raining, however intermittently, with sunshine and patches of blue sky in between. The one thing I absolutely love about this archipelago of islands is how varied the scenery is. On this side, the northwest side, closest to Vancouver Island, there are mostly big and little islands, not very mountainous. We’ll encounter more of those spectacular mountains soon.