Rounding Cape Scott We left Seattle in late January for our trip around Vancouver Island. We wintered in Sidney for two months, and left there during the last week of March. Since there, we have traveled almost 1600 miles around the island. This includes a wee 400 mile roundtrip detour back to Seattle in early…
We rounded Cape Scott on my birthday, July 6, in an oncoming gale, with 15 knots wind behind us & a 5 foot chop. 3 days later we rounded Cape Cook, again facing a gale forecast, with 20 knots of W wind, a 6 foot chop, & an 8 second period. A 30 knot wind…
Y’ ol’ phart. Schnort.
Two-year-old landslide in Turnbull Cove, occupying the best part of the anchorage. (Did I mention, though, that the anchorage is good throughout the whole bay? Check it out – Turnbull is great: easy anchoring (wear a hard hat), good fishing nearby, pictograph nearby, 2 (two!) lagoon outflows within dinkster distance, photo ops everywhere. Oooooh, look…
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. …