We motored up to Van Anda on Texada Island from Ballet Bay this morning solely to buy sausages from the butcher at the local market. You can imagine our disappointment when we learned that he recently moved to the store on the eastern side of the island. There aren't any facilities here – showers, laundry or fuel – but we were both still so tired from our time...
After a quiet day yesterday, we untied our dock lines and left Princess Louisa Inlet this morning at 6:30 for Ballet Bay – some 7 hours away. As difficult as it is to describe what it's like to spend time in one of the world's most beautiful fjords, equal to the task is explaining how bittersweet it feels to leave. Perhaps it defies explanation, or that it's so...
Saturday was another leisurely day starting off with floating around on the kayaks after lunch, an early dinner aboard and after-dinner drinks on deck as people roamed the docks. Cambria ended up being a focal point and David held court while I showed Anne, from Blue Rodeo, around and tried my best to answer some of her questions about provisioning a boat. I'm afraid I wasn't much help – it's...
July 2009 June 2010 Words can't describe how wonderful it is to be back in Princess Louisa Inlet – it's akin to coming home. It's our fourth visit, but each time different from the last and I'm struggling to recognize the landscape. There's more snow along the mountain ridges than there was last July resulting in countless waterfalls from the summer melt and Chatterbox is roaring like...
Our favourite spot on the dock is waiting for us at Chatterbox Falls. We upped anchor at noon and slowly started making our way to Princess Louisa Inlet, once again, to time our arrival at Malibu Rapids for slack tide – 7:06 pm. It was another beautiful day on the water with the wind blowing 15 knots in the Strait of Georgia and funneling into Jervis Inlet. We threw out...
We left Nanaimo around 11:30 this morning after spending a couple of days anchored off Newcastle Island. Given more time, it would have been nice to explore some of the many hiking trails, but we're both eager to cross the Strait of Georgia and start making out way to Princess Louisa Inlet. It was another long day made even longer by the fact that Whiskey Golf, a restricted...
Morning in Ganges on Salt Spring Island We left Bedwell Harbour yesterday morning and motored up to Ganges, a small town on Salt Spring Island, in search of veggies not grown in Mexico, the internet, and inspiration. What we found is a quick reminder that Ganges isn't one of our favourite places. A lot of people like it here because of the town's many restaurants and shops, but...
Poet's Cove Resort in Bedwell Harbour. This morning, with papers in hand, we untied from the mooring and motored north to South Pender Island in Canada. We hadn't been across the border for more than ten minutes when a Canadian Border Services inflatable came speeding up behind and startled us both. Our VHF radio wasn't on, and they were likely trying to hail us and became concerned when...
Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. We left Port Ludlow this morning with the tide for Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. The passage up and across the Strait of Juan de Fuca was good. Better than good, really. There wasn't any wind, but what began as an overcast and gray morning turned into a beautiful day on the water. And, with some help from the currents around...
Port Ludlow Falls After saying our final good-byes for the season to Jan, Don and Jonathan (the last ones standing), we fueled up Cambria and left Poulsbo with the tide last Thursday evening. Four hours later, we were about 25 nautical miles north tying up to the linear dock in Port Ludlow – the same spot we finished the season out in last year (fortunately, the night was...
It's been fairly quiet aboard Cambria this past week but that could change very soon. With the majority of work done, we're now looking at the weather and will drop our lines as soon as things settle down a bit which could be as early as Monday or Tuesday. At this point, it's difficult to say because the forecasts from NOAA are all over the place, as is...
