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All four boats are together again which called for a celebration. So Mj baked some chocolate cookies and made hot chocolate for our afternoon dessert hour. There was much discussion regarding the weather conditions and should we go around Cape Cautio…

The weather today was rainy – all day. A great day to do something inside the boat. Jerry spent a good portion of the day washing the boat using the rain water. My task for the day was to defrost the refrigerator – yippee! Yesterday we had dessert h…

The weather forecast says go, the winds have died down and so have the seas so we are off again. We have never been here before so now everything is new. Even the water is new because we have never been out in ocean swells with Jeannie so we were a b…

So here we are sitting at anchor waiting for the wind and the seas to calm down. Our next trip will take us around the dreaded Cape Caution. I think that every boat that heads to Alaska is much relieved when they have Cape Caution in the rear view mi…

We got an early start out of Greenway Sound. This is a place to come back to when we have time to take the hike to Broughton Lake. I think Greenway Sound is a beautiful place and aptly named. All three boats made a laundry/shower/grocery stop at a n…

After spending a two beautiful days at Waddington Bay it was time to contine on. Which translates into – we weren’t catching anymore crab so let’s move on to where we can catch some more! I don’t want to give the impression that everything here in th…

In our cruise today we went passed Bones Bay, Beware Passage, Dead Point Cove, Grave Islet, War Bluff and Farewell Harbour. Makes you wonder how all these places got their names. While we were in the middle of Beware Passage dodging very large rocks…

Leaving Campbell River is an anxious time. There are winds and opposing currents to consider and also the timing of Seymour Narrows. At full tide the current through Seymour can run as fast as 14 knots. Mariners are advised to travel through the Nar…

We feel like we are home here in Campbell River. We have spent many days here at Fisherman’s Wharf in the past and it was a good feeling returning here for a few days. To get here from our last anchorage we needed to round Cape Mudge. That is a trip…

Last night we had the pleasure of dinner with Kurt and Becky from s/v Millie aboard our boat. We shared our lingcod with them along with all the prawns Jerry had caught. The dinner was made complete with Becky’s brownies -mmmmm delicious! Now about …