The water here is translucent and glowing, it’s hard to get used to it’s so bright. Best I can tell it’s a form of algae bloom the reflects the light.

I woke up this morning and my batteries were stone dead. I was a bit surprised, as they were at 60% when I went to sleep, but not that surprised because I’ve noticed that when they don’t get a full charge for some time, the battery monitoring system (BMS) loses fidelity, and reports a strong charge when they may actually be close to dead. It’s been sunny lately, but not long enough to get me to a full charge, and over the last couple of days there has been mixed cloud cover, with full cloud cover all day yesterday. Usually the mix of solar with a few hours of engine run time tops them off, but I’ve barely run the engine in weeks due to the overheating issue. That makes me hope that my starter battery is getting enough of a charge during the short time I run the engine, as I never got around to replacing the lead acid charger when it was fried last year, so I can charge my house batteries with a dedicated lithium charger, but don’t have a direct way to charge my starter apart from the alternator. Hopefully it holds out long enough to get me to Ucluelet. For now, it looks like I’ll be running the generator all day.