Hello and welcome back to another chapter of our 2019
Canadian Sailing Expedition! In the last post we had just crossed the Strait of
Georgia and were headed up to Princess Louisa Inlet. In this post we take you
to the famed inlet and continue our voyage North.
We also have a new video for this post, however this video is a trailer for our youtube channel that we are trying to grow. If you have a youtube account we would so appreciate ya hitting the subscribe button.... plus then you will never miss a video that we put out!
We also have a new video for this post, however this video is a trailer for our youtube channel that we are trying to grow. If you have a youtube account we would so appreciate ya hitting the subscribe button.... plus then you will never miss a video that we put out!
Cruising Maya's new YouTube Trailer!
The following blog post covers travel indicated in red
Distance Traveled in this post: 143.6 nautical miles
Total Trip Distance so far: 254 nautical miles
Days this blog post covers: 5 Days
Hours Spent Travelling: 24.3 hours
Total Amount of Fuel Used From Start of Trip: 21 Gallons
Diesel
We bid our farewell to Green Bay, which was a lovely
anchorage, and we made our way to Princess Louisa, arriving after a long day
motoring through a deep channel surrounded by towering mountains. Upon arriving,
not even the rain could dampen our spirits for Princess Louisa lived up to the
hype! My goodness! The views were spectacular- sheer cliff walls rising
thousands of feet up, water falls everywhere you looked, and a HUGE waterfall
at the head of the bay. The whole inlet looked straight out of Jurassic
Park.... even the hills seems to smolder with the low lying clouds- giving it a
prehistoric look. We stayed for two nights at the public dock, enjoying the
sound of the waterfall from our boat. It rained (super-duper hard) the whole
time we were there, but it was a really awesome place and definitely worth the
trek up. For a spell, we even had the entire dock to ourselves, which, to my
understanding, is a rare thing.
Traveling to Princess Louisa
Approaching the dock
Maya at the Princess Louisa Dock
Maya
with Chatterbox Falls. Lots more waterfalls on the cliff wall
After two nights at the dock, we headed out of the inlet,
and back towards the Strait of Georgia, where we could continue our journey
North. Princess Louisa was an amazing stop, but it was a side attraction for
this trip (how lucky are we?!). Our main goal is going North and rounding
Vancouver Island.
As we motored away from the Coastal Mountains where Princess
Louisa lives, the rain began to lighten, and eventually turned to sun! Oh
glorious sun! We will never take you for granted ever again! We ended up
anchoring in Blind Bay on Hardy Island, after a long day motoring. We had anchored in Blind Bay the year before
and it was fun to be back in a place we knew and could reminisce about. Looking
back, we were clueless on that first big trip! It felt really great to really
get a gauge on how much we’ve learned in just a year.
Here we are anchored in Blind Bay.
After a nice calm evening, we hoisted the anchor and
continued motoring our way North, hugging the western side of mainland Canada.
We were destined for Middlenatch Island (insert map link), which resides
smack-dab-in-the-middle of the Strait of Georgia. But before we made it to
MIddlenatch we decided to stop at Savory Island, which is famed for its beach!
My goodness! It felt like we were on a tropical beach, with its white sand beaches
and warm shallow waters. We had a ton of fun hiking around and throwing the
Frisbee around. Disco really enjoyed that stop.
Here’s where’ Middlenatch resides.
Great beach
Family day at the beach
Disco and her prized possession
While we enjoyed our time stretching our legs and playing
frisbee as we explored the very nice beaches of Savory Island, we decided to
not anchor there for the evening as there was a lot of boat traffic (causing a
lot of wake) and the anchorage was very exposed to wind and weather. So after a
nice mission to shore we hoisted the anchor and motored a few extra miles to
Middlenatch Island, enjoying the trip’s first sight of whales while enroute! Humpback
whales! They were literally blocking the entrance to our anchorage.... sadly we
don't have any photos (it was all happening so fast!) but it was so cool seeing
whales and we hope that's a sign of things to come. We spent a nice evening
there listening to the thousands of birds who call the island home (Middlenatch
island is a bird sanctuary) and left early the next morning before the tide
caused our anchorage to vanish.
SUP mission to Middlenatch Island. Maya in the background.
Oh Disco!
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