After the usual P’s and E’s (provisioning, pump-outs; exercise, emails) in Spanish, we headed to Eagle Island, 10 miles to the SE. The wind usually kicks-up whitecap waves at 15 knots, but we have another sign—M…
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Eagle Island 8-11-11
After the usual P’s and E’s (provisioning, pump-outs; exercise, emails) in Spanish, we headed to Eagle Island, 10 miles to the SE. The wind usually kicks-up whitecap waves at 15 knots, but we have another sign—M…
Laurier Island 8-9-11
We have finally loaded in all our GPS ports and anchorage waypoints into the “Looper Locator” top section of this blog so you can get a Google Earth view of where we have been so far this summer. You’ll notice that we’ve been all over the Nor…
Laurier Island 8-9-11
We have finally loaded in all our GPS ports and anchorage waypoints into the “Looper Locator” top section of this blog so you can get a Google Earth view of where we have been so far this summer. You’ll notice that we’ve been all over the Nor…
Port McNeil
We slept in a bit and the Debbie and Barb headed over to the ferry to visit U’mista, the cultural center at Alert Bay. See: http://www.umista.org/ U’mista is a term of the Kwakwaka’wakw people that means returning home after being taken in a raid…
Mackinac Island, does not get any better than this…………..
What a pleasure to be “home”. Mackinac Island has been a favorite for most of my adult life. In my 20’s I began to race sailboats and the Port Huron and Chicago Mackinac races end at Mackinac Island. We have won a few races and placed in others, …
To Port McNeil
Departure was at 5:30, in the dark. We needed to get around Cape Caution and across Queen Charlotte Sound, another potentially rough stretch. The winds were up to about 13 knots with waves about 2 feet, nothing really difficult, but enough to keep us…
Drummond Island – back in the USA!
We had visited Drummond Island on our first trip to the North Channel and had a rather unpleasant experience as we had difficulty getting into the marina. The islands and shoals are everywhere and the buoys change color and direction at will!
Drummo…
Meldrum Bay – charming with a good restaurant.
As we left Gore Bay traveling to Meldrum Bay, we had one more view of the lighthouse. We were wishing we had ridden our bikes out to the lighthouse even in the strong winds.
The scenery is so beautiful. Even with our 5 weeks here in Canada, we hav…
Don, the Salmonator, with salmon
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