An early morning in Echo Bay lagoon
Leslie's alarm went of at 5:42 a.m., her old 'get up and jog with Carol' before school time. By 6 o'clock we were rowing Pacifico over the flat, reflective water…
Leslie's alarm went of at 5:42 a.m., her old 'get up and jog with Carol' before school time. By 6 o'clock we were rowing Pacifico over the flat, reflective water…
OMG, what a day.....! We experienced the high of visiting the ancient Haida site of K'uuna Linagaay (Skedans) and the low of losing our reading on the depth finder to…
Through the Visitor Center in Queen Charlotte City, we were put in touch with Dick Bellis (Skil Q'uas), a 77 year old native born here of a Finnish man and…
The Hecate Strait which lies between Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) and the BC mainland has a fearsome reputation. When a strong pressure system is around, the waves…
From the north end of Vancouver Island up to the border with Alaska is 400 kilometers of forested islands separated by thousands of kilometers of inlets and bays and more.…
July 1: We left Port McNeil in tandem, but not for long, with one of the R2AK racers which had stopped for the night and to examine some of the…
We took a long bus ride from the northern end of Vancouver Island down to the southern tip at Victoria. This 9 hour trip took us from cool, damp, gray…
We have spent two nights at the government dock in Alert Bay on Cormorant Island. We found some Internet, some restaurant food, and some old and new totem poles. We…
After our visit to the Indian villages that are disappearing into the landscape, we anchored on Hanson Island. This island has been officially incorporated as the southern-most extent of the…
Almost a week ago we were about to enter the region known as “Johnstone Strait” which has a reputation for nasty winds and waves. Our passage was pacific. After passing…
After leaving Hornby Island, we beat our way northwest for almost 40 nautical miles. We passed close to Mittlenach Provincial Nature Park and debated stopping in a tiny bay called…
Walking the shoreline south from Ford Bay on Hornby Island toward the south end of the island at Norman Point is an other-worldly experience. The shore is composed of layers…
We now have left the good old US of A and hope that you all can play some needed 'Trump' card and clean things up by the time we return. …
Well, here it is June 5, 2016, and we are 'ready' to head north on Cat's Cradle with our goal to wander slowly northward, stopping here and there, and settling…
We left home some 10 days ago. Three sailboats from the Friday Harbor Sailing Club headed north into Canada. Our goal: Princess Louisa and Chatterbox Falls. As it turned out…
Laura and Tucker are off singing and drumming along the banks of the Snake River and Leslie and Val are taking care of Oz and Tennessee. On Sunday, the Veirs…
We sailed in our catamaran, Cat's Cradle, to Victoria last week to watch the start of the R2AK, the first (annual?) race from Port Townsend, Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska. The…
Given that we have just read Erskine Childers' excellent The Riddle of the Sands, we have decided to spend our last five days on Texel (pronounced "Tessel"), a small island…
Kings Day is a national holiday celebrating the House of Orange's success at beating back the Spanish Catholics during the Middle Ages and creating the base of the diverse and…
We are on the island of Texel (pronounced Tessel) and are preparing to return home. These photos are ones that we like because they have 'interesting' patterns -- and we…