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Summer of 2003 After a 26 hour passage passing Cape St.
James, at the tip of Queen Charlotte Islands to Cape Scott on the
northern tip of Vancouver Island, we anchored in Sea Otter Cove. We spent 3 days
there. One day sleeping and relaxing and two days catching up
with chores on the boat.
We proceeded down the west coast of Vancouver Island and
anchored in Winter Harbour where we started to catch salmon (at last).
Our next destination was Klaskino Inlet then we
headed towards Brooks Peninsular. In Brooks Peninsular we anchored
at the Bunsby Islands and had a few days of exploring and kayaking.
Walter's Cove was out next destination, we found civilization, weekend cottages, seaplanes etc. A really pleasant place with
a good store for fresh vegetables, milk and an ice cream which we treated
ourselves to.

We continued down the coast to Bligh Marine Park,
Friendly Cove and saw whales as we were entering Claquot Sound. Finally we
arrived at Tofino and spent a few days there before heading for Ucluelet
and Barclay Sound. We left Barclay Sound on August
12th for Sidney, via Victoria. We have stayed in the Sidney area
provisioning, anti-fouling the boat and took a very brief trip to Vancouver
via Ferry for some admin. stuff that needed attending to. We will be
heading out to San Francisco on September 3rd or thereabouts.
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