Roscoe Inlet may be 23 miles long, but the real journey doesn’t begin until a mile south of Boukind Bay.  It’s here that the channel forks to the east, narrows and takes on a serpentine route that carries you the remaining 12 miles inland through some of the most breathtaking scenery along the Central Coast.  With the exception of one or two small areas that continue to recover...

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The Central Coast is a popular place during the height of the summer.  Not by the same standards as Desolation Sound where sharing an anchorage with dozens of other boats – sometimes more – is the  norm.  But in a “Damn!  There’s already another boat anchored here” kind of way.  And the closer you are to Shearwater, the busier it gets.  But Briggs Inlet, north of Return Channel,...

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Half the joy of cruising the Inside Passage is what you see along the way and making a run down Bullock Channel, east of Yeo Island, turned out to be a really nice start to the week.  For some reason, it doesn’t get a lot of credit for being anything other than the best route to the top of Spiller Channel from Bella Bella, but it’s a quiet...

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Now that it's the end of the season and we're hiding from the weather, I thought I'd throw it back to one of my favourite blog entries to remind me what it's all about.  This one was originally posted on April 22, 2014: It’s not a question we often hear, but Latitude 38 posed it recently in their online magazine.  Here’s some of what they wrote: We're not asking this in...

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When it comes to destinations, Spiller Channel hasn’t exactly been calling our name:  The surrounding hills are low and have been heavily logged, a practice that continues today, so the scenery isn’t what we’d consider “enticing”.  But in “Exploring the North Coast of British Columbia,” Douglass has this to say about the waterfall located at its head: Ellerslie Falls . . . in our opinion are the best...

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Cambria motoring towards Seaforth Channel, The Central Coast. One of the things we’re trying to accomplish while we’re based in the Pacific Northwest is to see as much of the area as we can.  So, when the opportunity to visit a new anchorage comes up, we jump at the chance.  Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose.  This week was a mix of both.  First up, we have...

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Disclaimer:  This blog article is not to be used for navigation.  It is solely an account of our personal experience and anchor location in Rescue Bay during calm weather conditions.  What worked for us at one particular time is no guarantee or indication that it will work for others.  There are no services in the immediate area and any boat that enters should be self-sufficient. Approach:        52°31.319’N, 128°16.937’W...

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A Google map image of James Bay sitting of Mathieson Channel. When we were anchored in James Bay (Pooley Island) back in August I had a wildlife experience I won’t soon forget.  The day started off like any other:  I woke up hours before anyone else, so I was sitting on the deck taking a look at the world when I thought I heard something rustling in the...

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