Bocce Ball at Rebecca Spit Marine Park. Today was a busy day.  After walking Sally this morning and practically dragging her back to the boat (she absolutely, positively loves it here and never seems to want to go home), we went into Heriot Bay with Bill and Sylvia to buy groceries.  And buy we did!  So much so that I ended up over-loading the frig and had to...

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Salubrious at anchor in Drew Harbour. I took Sally to shore this morning and nearly drowned her at the dock.  Okay.  So that's a slight exaggeration, but she did end up in the water for the first time in more than seven years.  It happened so quickly that the details are a little fuzzy, but she jumped from the dinghy when we were still three or four feet...

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We upped anchor early Wednesday morning and made our way back to Gorge Harbour to spend a few days with our friends, Bill and Sylvia, getting up to all of the usual things – socializing, using the internet, hiding out from a rain shower or two and (in attempt to keep my promise) more laundry – but today David and I stepped outside our usual patterns and did...

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We left Gorge Harbour for nearby Mansons Landing this morning nearly taking out half the anchorage with us  Well, maybe not half.  But acouple of boats had anchored too close to us and, as we were pulling in our chain, the point was proven.  It's just too bad they weren't aboard as Cambria came within feet of them, not that they'd learn a lesson in Anchoring 101, but...

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Gorge Harbour Marina Laundry.  Laundry.  And more laundry.  Nine loads in total including everything from bath mats to dog beds, but it's all done now with the promise that I won't let it get out of control again (until the next time, that is).  But one doesn't come to Gorge Harbour for peace and relaxation anyway.  It's a bustling anchorage with people coming and going and activities taking...

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Rebecca Spit Marine Park. We spent the past three nights anchored in Rebecca Spit Marine Park:  One of British Columbia's oldest and most popular marine parks (the main reason we've avoided it until now...and regrettably so).   It's absolutely beautiful – the quintessential Pacific Northwest beach –with gently sloping beaches piled high with driftwood and granite rocks with trails that travel one end of the spit to the...

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It may not look like it, but the weather's improving in Roscoe Bay. A baby seal adopted Cambria as it's mother yesterday and we could hear it crying throughout the night as it tried to suckle the boat and started to worry that it had been abandoned.  David and another couple, who had also been watching the pup, went out of the anchorage in the dinghy to find a cell...

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Our new friend...a 2 to 3 week old seal pup. With good weather over the past two days, Roscoe Bay has been a hive of activity with kayaking, hiking and swimming topping the list of things to do but, unfortunately, we'll be leaving in the morning.  We're finally out of fresh food and it's time to go shopping.  Though I'm sure we'll be back, if not this year,...

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Black Lake in Roscoe Bay before the rain sets in again. There's not much in the way of activity in Pendrell Sound and the opportunities to shore Sally are limited, so we left Wednesday afternoon (after only one night) on a rising tide and made our way to nearby Roscoe Bay, one of our favourite anchorages.  And it's been raining, for the most part, every day since then....

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Mount Addenbroke at sunset. It was David's turn to be sick yesterday and he spent most of the day napping but, with both of us feeling better today, we left Walsh Cove this afternoon and made our way down Waddington Channel for Pendrell Sound. T he water here is very deep with little tidal flow or currents helping the temperatures reach 78º F in the height of summer. ...

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Toba Inlet The alarm went off at 4:30 am.  And again at 4:35 am.  And at 4:40 am.  Finally dragging us out of bed around 5:30 am.   I had been sick the night before and was tired.  Very tired.  More tired than I had any right to be, as David would say.  But we managed to up anchor by 6:00 am, before signs that anyone else in...

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Waddington Channel The nights are much better here in Walsh Cove than in Frances Bay and so are the days.  The barometer's on the rise from 1013 MB to 1018 MB and the weather's been beautiful giving us plenty of time to explore the marine park by kayak – which has everything to offer from the Gorges Islets, to ancient petroglyphs, to a stunning view up Waddington Channel....

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Sailing down Pryce Channel. True to the forecast and the barometer, we woke up to cloudy skies threatening showers.  But it should clear out by tomorrow giving us a few days of summer...at last! It continued to blow last night and David was up until 3:00 am (while I slept like a baby) seeing 22 knots of down slope wind coming across the head of the bay from...

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The infamous log boom in Frances Bay. Today was d-day (departure, that is), so we went to shore this morning to say our good-byes.  We'll be back the first part of August, but it was still difficult to leave.   Even Sally seemed to know what's going on and didn't want to come back to the boat. We were running low on water, so David prepped the water-maker...

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We're making plans to head south through the Dent and Yuculta Rapids tomorrow for Desolation Sound in search of warmer water and summer weather.  It's disappointing.  But there really is not point in heading north only to be miserable, cold and wet.  And the thought of doing it two seasons in a row, is too much. We spent a quiet afternoon aboard cleaning, putting things away and trying...

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Sunset in Phillips Arm. The roofers (not to be confused with WOOFers) arrived from Campbell River by water taxi this morning.  With Kelly having lost so many days because of the rain, the guys (sans David) had their work cut out for them as they tried to stay ahead of the roofers by laying sheeting for the asphalt shingles.  They accomplished a lot – an amazing amount, really...

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Canada Day and Fourth of July Pig Roast There may be a god after all.  It's still cold, but the sun's shining and the barometer's on the rise after falling from 1020 MB to 1011 MB and is now at 1014 MB.  And just in time too.  I was ready to kill someone after so many days of rain and didn't fancy my chances against David. The neighbours,...

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So much for the barometer and Environment Canada's forecast.  The last three days have been miserable.  Beyond miserable.  Cold.  Wet.  Dreary.  These are the days we don't blog about.   The rainy ones.  The days where you're ready to throw it all away in search of sunshine and warmth.  The days where the heater runs from morning to night.  The generator for hours at a time.  Everything is...

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