There's a running joke in the Pacific Northwest: Summer starts on the fifth of July and ends on the sixth. I hate to admit it, but there might be some truth to that. Every time it looks like settled weather is finally here, the proverbial football is pulled away. We can be wearing shorts and t-shirts one day, sweating in the heat of the afternoon, and find ourselves...

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Disclaimer:  This blog article is not to be used for navigation.  It is purely an account of our personal experience in and around the Desolation Sound area of British Columbia. It seems ironic that Captain George Vancouver chose the name Desolation Sound for what's now one of British Columbia's busiest and largest marine parks. But in 1792, when Vancouver was surveying the Inside Passage, that's what he found...

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It's been a pretty quiet couple of weeks in the world of Cambria, slowly motoring from anchorage to anchorage – Pender Harbour, Musket Island Marine Park, Desolation Sound and now the Octopus Islands. Some days were spent floating around in the kayaks, dipping our feet in the water to help stay cool but most were spent tucked below with the heater on listening to the rain fall. The...

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On our way back to the boat in March, we decided to do some late-winter camping, stopping off in Los Algodones, Mexico (near Yuma, Arizona) to see the dentist. I've already written about the places we stayed in New Mexico (Oliver Lee State Park and City of Rocks State Park), Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Sani Dental Group and am picking up the trip where we left...

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