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South Sound to Broughtons 2022

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Silent for three years, Baggywrinkles’ Blog is being teased back to life. The new WordPress editing system scared me off and with the endless appearance of new apps essential to my everyday existence, screen time had become scream time. Now after five weeks out on the water, I’ve committed to a second try. Here are some photos of this summer’s cruise to the Broughtons, notes on the books I read (all but one in old-fashioned print), a log with notes on anchorages and disappearing wilderness marinas, and photos of year-round cruising in 2020 and 2021. As this is still a construction site, please complain, advise, leave comments, and keep coming back.

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Day 1 and Jack’s back in his beloved shark pants and has already got a new gym set up.
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First stop is Blake Island, with seven empty buoys in view of the Space Needle. Where is everybody?
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South Sound here we come!
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We’re the only boat in Filuchy Bay, surrounded by lovely old homes.
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Mt. Ranier comes out as we head back north.
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We only have to be away for a few days for the deer take over. This audacious six-point buck is part of our emergency food supply.
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This is my all night volunteer station at the finish line of the Seventy 48 adventure race.
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This innovative Seventy48 craft was powered from Tacoma by four cyclists.
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Race to Alaska teams pedal and paddle out of Point Hudson.
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It’s no small effort to get to the starting line.
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R2AK teams head out in all sorts of small craft.
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Sails augment human n power.
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O Canada! Oh oh.
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Nordic Tugs at Ladysmith
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Boho Bay off Lesquiti Island is where we unwind.
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After a day at the beach on Hornby we circle Chrome Island Light.
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Wrecks of fourteen 19th Century wooden ships provide the breakwater at Royston, a former logging camp.
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The launch at Comox offers a constant parade of early morning rowers, kids learning to sail, families out fishing, and dozens of after-work dragon boat paddlers.
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With charts, radio, and binoculars at the ready, I sit at the nav station, across from Jack at the helm.
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Mountains of the BC Mainland appear as a tissue paper tableau in hues of blue.
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Sea lions lounge on a cardinal bouy off Point Lazo. Two cones atop it say “stay to the east.”
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The crew of Moring Light enjoys views other miss following a predawn departure to catch slack at Seymour Narrows.
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Boats usually raft at Shoal three thick. Is this really the eve of Canada Day?
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The view across Codero Channel up Phillips Arm is spellbinding.
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The Shoal Bay vegetable garden features one of Cynthia’s totems.
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Babbling brook meanders where a town of 2000 once stood.
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There’s always work to do at Shoal Bay but the pace is slow.
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The retired troller Bessie used to take Mark and Cynthia to Brown’s Bay for provisions. Since the pandemic, they order online and a water taxi delivers.
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The Peeano, built a decade ago by Herb from Alberta, has been joined by a second toilet.
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Built in early second growth forest atop old growth debris these old-fashioned outhouses enjoy rare soil and climatic conditions and require no emptying.
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Ths straight edge of the shoreline during this neap cycle shows that the fir boughs dip into the sea at spring tide high water.
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We transit Green Point Rapids early to navigate a set of narrows further east in Wellbore Channel.
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Morning shadows hide evidence of logging over recent decades. The peaks of Vancouver Island, across the Johnstone Channel glisten as day breaks.
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This K’waxwalawadi village on Gilford Island has a new community hall next to their long house with drawings of jumping salmon and a giant “copper”, a traditional offering of metal at potlatches.
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Pretty funny bald eagle, sitting there drying its wings like a cormorant!
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With the scooter stowed upright, there’s ample space to relax, cook and eat in the cockpit .
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Silver and pewter rings appear and disappear in this light rain.
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Surface patterns – like these made by a small fast passing boat always – fascinate me.
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What a surprise to find the legendary 1927 yacht Deerleap moored in Echo Bay!
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One of thousands of tinyislands that make up the low laying parts of the watery wonderland known as The Broughtons.
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Jack saw this whale blow before it swam past us, diving without showing a light patch nor a fluke. What kind of whale is it?
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An early morning departure from Port Harvey finds Johnstone waters flat.
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We enjoy the calm waters in Race Passage, the roughest section of Johnstone Strait.
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Thurston Bay is not far from the four corner intersection of Nodales and Cordero Channels and Frederick Arm.
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As the tide peaks and the sun sets, the fog lays down in Nodales Channel.
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The silence here is only broken by the jumps and splashes of small fish pursuing schools of what look like tiny sand lance.
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The blue ketch heads toward Johnstone Strait and high peaks of Vancouver Island.
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The shoreline of Thurston Bay is mirrored in flat water of dawn, showing a totem pole effect.
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A humpback forces us to stop and dives next to us. Note its fluke in the middle of the photo.
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Watch it spout, dive deep, and show the grey underside of its flukes, which help identify individual whales. (Sorry, no video here.)
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The cabins on the Read Island side of Okisollo Chanel are accessible only by boat.
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At high tide, Rebecca Spit affords a view of Cortes Island and the mountains of the BC Mainland.
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Isn’t Jack endearing as he soothes itchy ears with olive oil?
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Here it’s first come, first served, no reservations. But the Harbor Authority staff is likely to move boats to squeeze you in.
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Montague Harbour has large walk-in/bike-in campsites on the hil. Below it is a white shell beach, long occupied by First Nations people.
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The crew of Tonic likes our manual crane and comes by to take a picture of it. As their collection of small craft shows, they’re not crazy about inflatables with outboards either.
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The Turn Point Light on Stuart Island welcomes us across the busy shipping of the Boundary Channel and back to the US.
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The yacht Thea Foss, named for the founder of the legendary tugboat company, is also on a visit to Roche Harbor.
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Passpatoo, too!
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Roche Harbor in summer is a sea of white plastic. Morning Light squeezed in among towering yachts, including the weird sport fishing boat Invincible.
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At Watmough Bay, the efficient rowing of the younger brother in this sweet Metzeler inflatable caught my attention and the pair came over to chat.

One response to “South Sound to Broughtons 2022”

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    Ashley Rea

    Hi Carol,
    Thank you so much for reading Sincerely, Mildred! I Google my book every once in a while and I was so pleased to see you enjoyed it! It made my day, truly. The way you described the book was excellent, I have to add! It is my dream to become a full-time historical novelist someday soon and work on getting a book contract and ultimately get movie deals. Your blog was fun to read and the photos are breathtaking!

    Thanks again for making me feel like a real writer and I hope to finish my sophomore novel, White Ship Inn, sometime in the near future. If you liked Mildred, you’ll love White Ship Inn.

    Have a great weekend and thanks for reading!
    Ashley (Lane) Rea

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