Propane Chief – Provisioning in the Broughton’s Well – here we are in the lower Broughton’s – we were in the upper Broughton’s the middle and now in the South. The last time we actually brought some real food on the boat was at Harriet Bay – about 100 miles south of this position and…
Happy Canada Day. We love BC’s water and islands. We love BC’s people. We love Comox Brie cheese. We love how lean the beef and chicken are up here. We love Canada’s national anthem. We love curling. We love the 80-proof liquor. So we can drink more of it. We love that we can write…
Mamalilaculla is an abandoned First Nations community located on Indian Reserve land on Village Island in the Broughton archipelgo. The guidebooks all describe a community that was built on a midden about 12 feet high (i.e., there must have been at least intermittent habitation for thousands of years), and the village remained viable into the…
A REAL cANADIAN POWERBOAT We have been on the go for about two months now – covered about 800 miles up and down the inside of Vancouver Island – from Sidney up to Desolation Sound ..down to Seattle, back up to the Broughtons – well it is a mobile life, but we are now starting…
A very short distance in a northwesterly direction up Tribune Channel from Kwatsi Bay, is a special waterfall that drops straight down into the salt water from a smooth, broad granite face. The guidebooks refer to it as "Lacy Falls" and rumor has it the shore is so steep-to that you can run yer boat…
Up here in British Columbia, north of the 50th parallel, everything is bigger. The mountains are bigger. The tidal ranges are bigger.* The currents are bigger. The weather is…bigger. All this makes standing in awe very easy, but the scale of the landscape is very difficult for the human eye to measure in a photograph. …
Our travel NW up the Strait of Georgia was made more circuitous by some vagaries of the weather, which made it convenient to divert eastward back into the general Desolation Sound area we had visited last month. We traveled to the eastern side of Cortes Island to little Squirrel Cove (50deg.07.33N, 124deg.54.32W), arriving just as…
There we were, in Grace Harbour in Desolation Sound, back in early April when we were young. I took some photos there. What do you see? m
Nanaimo is a city on the eastern, south-central side of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The Hudson’s Bay Company made a killing here in the 1850s when they learned there was coal aplenty in the neighborhood. Gave them a break from the monotony of all that fur trading, don’t you know. Enough areas of…
Poached Oysters I never paid much attention to all the web site pundits and book authors who praised the cruising community. Having spent so much time in big cities, the concept of a "cruising community" was beyond this big-city boy. When we started sailing about 8 years ago, we met several really nice people –…