Partying Through the Broughtons; Sullivan Bay Aug 10- 13, 2012

Sullivan Bay

Here’s what the guidebooks don’t tell you about  “The Broughtons”   - a group of islands in northern BC - this area is one big, roving, floating happy hour.  The marinas are, for the most part, not on land but on floats tied together and topped with shacks, cabins and in some cases homes.  Usually, there is no way to reach land as there is no actual shore or flat soil, just tree covered mountains shooting straight up from the water.   Each of these islands has its own personality and a following; but what they do have in common is cocktail parties at 5- 6 PM – daily.  And as you island hop, you will be meeting up with many of the same boaters heading either south or north. Hopefully, you like your flotilla.

Our first stop in the northern Broughtons’ is Sullivan Island.  This  “village”  is a set of U-shaped floating  docks with a liquor store, of sorts, a grocery store – with BC cherries at $15 a bag  (fruit starved, I plunked down my money like a drug addict  snapping up his next hit ) and a fuel dock.  This cute little town named the “streets” (docks)  which includes about 10 private homes, consisting of several cabins and some upscale houses , one with a helicopter and landing  pad on his roof and another with a float plane in the backyard ( the water). 

 Happy hour is 5 – 6 PM daily on the dock under a tent - bring an appetizer.  Dinner is next door at the Town Hall Restaurant with one offering each night.  We happen to be there for Friday night’s Prime Rib.  In the morning there are fresh baked cinnamon rolls – dough is too light and fluffy, like a crispy crème donut – but great cinnamon flavor.

Golf!

 We want to take a walk but there is no land to hike, still, exercise is an option: if you walk all the docks you will have covered a mile.  We saw some people, with more imagination than I have – running  the docks – back and forth, back and forth….  And there is golf!  A tee at the end of the dock, next to the fuel station, where several guys gather after dinner hit balls to the  “green” out in the bay on a floating dock.  Dogs have a pee pad, a strip of grass 6’ x 2’ and you best get in line early as it gets mighty crowded at bed time.   

Moonrise in Sullivan Bay