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| Entering Queen Charlotte Channel |
Mid-day Monday we depart Vancouver for Bowen Island, just around the corner of Horseshoe Bay and across Queen Charlotte Channel - we make it in an hour and a half. Again, on this week four of our adventure, the weather is perfect - blue skies and low 70,s, as it has been every day we have been out.
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| The Marina Grounds |
We enter Snug Cove Bay - now who wouldn't want to be somewhere called Snug Cove? - the most beautiful island yet. The fjord's tree covered mountains rise out of the sea surrounding us 360 degrees. The historic Union Steam Ship Marina is our new home for a few days. It is surrounded by 600 acres of park land.
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| Jim and the Dogs |
No dog leashes are required and Zippy runs wild with the marina dog, a Jack Russell named "Marina." There are a ton of hiking options and we tackle many of them, including a 5 mile walk around a lake but we don't climb the 2,408 foot mountain. We have gotten too soft from all the Vancouver food.
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| Crab dinner on board |
A mother otter with her three babies swim around our boat and tease the dogs by squealing at them from under the docks. One morning we wake up to see the mother otter pull a large salmon out of the water and onto the rocks on shore, where her babies wait for breakfast, and tear into the fish like, well, like wild otters.
On Thursday, the day for departure, we decide we must stay another day and we do. A couple from Salt Lake City docks behind us and we have drinks and trade cruising stories. On Friday, we decide we really should stay yet another day. We are now part of the Frequent Docking program, stay 6 nights and your 7th one is free. One more night and we will have achieved our gold status.
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This is why we can't leave But What a View Once we Do Leave |
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