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“I’ve lost my rudder in the chuck!” (More Coast Guard Tales)
16 June 2012 What do you do when you hear someone cry out over the radio, “I’ve lost my rudder in the chuck?” If you’re the Comox Coast Guard Station, you reply immediately: “Station who reported losing its rudder in … Continue reading
To the Trapper’s Cabin (Accidental Geocachers)
15 June 2012 As soon as we docked at Princess Louisa, everyone asked, “are you going to the trapper’s cabin?” We had no idea what they were talking about—the trapper’s cabin? Apparently some distance upward was a cabin, a ruin … Continue reading
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Tagged geogache, Muriel Wylie Blanchet, Princess Louisa Inlet, The Curve of Time, trapper's cabin
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Eyes Rubbed Raw by Beauty
13-16 June 2012 Wednesday-Saturday Princess Louisa Inlet What a place! We smelled cool fresh water as soon as we turned the corner into the foot of the inlet, though we’d already begun to hear the rush of the falls even … Continue reading
Sailing up Jervis Inlet II (Literary Interlude)
No matter where we went or what we felt or observed, no matter how new to us our experiences were, no matter how solitary the voyage seemed, we were never alone. Wherever we arrived hosts of others had already or … Continue reading
Sailing up Jervis Inlet I
13 June 2012 The cruising guides warn sailors to be prepared for a long motor up Jervis Inlet, a 46 mile fjord, if they’re headed to Princess Louisa Inlet and Chatterbox Falls. If you’re lucky, they say, you might have … Continue reading
Downpour
12 June 2012 Tuesday Pender Harbour Rain drums steadily on the deck and hatches and streams of water roll off the canvas. It is a day of cedar-tinged twilight until evening, which brings descending fog and still more rain. They … Continue reading
Closely Watched Birds
11 June 2012 Buccaneer Bay Mallard pair; Canada goose
Northwest Buccaneer
10 June 2012 We pick up a mooring buoy at N 49° 29.534’ W 123° 59.029’ in Buccaneer Bay, North and South Thormanby Islands You think that Buccaneer Bay will be about pirates and adventure. That such a place will … Continue reading
Passages in Howe Sound
1-10 June 2012 We do some repairs, laundry and communications, meet up with Vancouver friends, and wait for Elisabeth to arrive from Nova Scotia. It is all very exciting although much of this activity involves using the boat like a … Continue reading
Strait Crossing (in which we learn the origins of several colonial place names)
Thursday 31 May 2012 We set out from Nanaimo for Howe Sound in the morning after listening to the weather report. It’s about 26 miles across the Georgia Strait, anchorage to anchorage, on this calm grey morning. We hope for … Continue reading
Posted in 2012
Tagged BC Place Names, Georgia Strait, Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast, Vancouver
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