Most days you’ll find me awake and moving around the boat hours before David so when he said, “MetVuw  has the weather looking really good by the weekend” I was sure he was still asleep . . . or experiencing the first stages of dementia.  Either way, it was only Monday morning – surely the weather would break before then. It did, and we were able to up...

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These are my least favourite days of the cruising season.  The ones where an endless parade of fronts, troughs and low pressure systems move through the area giving us no option but to hunker down and wait . . . and then wait some more.  The ones where everything on Cambria seems to break down, ourselves included, and the balance of cruising is tipped from being ‘rewarding’ to...

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I like an anchorage with a story to tell, so it’s no surprise that Wallace Island Marine Park in the southern Gulf Islands landed on our radar. What is surprising, though, is that it took six years to get there. Located between Galiano and Saltspring Islands in Trincomali Channel, little is written about Wallace Island before the arrival of David and Jeanne Conover, a newly married couple from Southern California...

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For one reason or another, Jedediah Island in the Strait of Georgia is a black hole in the world of charts.  David suspects it’s because there is no commercial interest on the island, but I’m not convinced.  There are plenty of island and islets in the area that are charted and, yet, have no commercial interest either.  Jedediah Island, on the other hand, has a nice hidey-hole in...

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The official start of the fall storm season had arrived and it was time to move south toward more settled weather.  So, after waiting out the last of the bad conditions, both Cambria and Salubrious upped anchor and left Gorge Harbour and Cortes Island behind for the year.  To help make the process as painless as possible, we threw in a couple of new anchorages along the way:...

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What goes up must come down; it’s a simple law of physics.  As much we hate moving south for the winter, it has to be done and dropping below 50° N is particularly difficult for us.  To help make the process as painless as possible, we like to visit new anchorages whenever we can.  This time around we chose Mitlenatch Island in the northern Strait of Georgia. Once...

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