Aug 04, 2016: Homfray Goodbye

Under beautiful warm sunny skies we wrap up our visit to Homfray Lodge. Four wonderful days of when coming back here feels just like visiting old friends, you know those friends you see periodically and you just kind of pickup were you left off. Thank you, Dave, Matt and Scott for your warm hospitality during our stay. Looks like I am getting a bit better in calculating our gas consumption as after a few long days on the water we had enough to get us back to the Okeover ramp with a few drops to spare. The sunny skies and flat, flat water certainly helped as well. This allowed me to trailer back to Paradise Rock with much less weight, so all good. So, hmmm, filled the boat up on the way home, 100 litres for my 106 litre tank, now that pushing it. This means that I had about 15 to 20 minutes left in my tank, I knew it was going to be close but that is pushing it a bit. All good at the of the day as we had a wonderful dinner on deck, thanks Jan. Great vacation at Homfray, hope to see you again soon. Will let you, our follows know what are plans are next by the end of the month. Hope you enjoy our last few pics of our wonderful stay...

Aug 03, 2016: Toba Inlet, Desolation Sound

Cloudy this morning then a breaking sun around noon got us going up the 26 nautical miles up the Toba Inlet. With cascading waterfalls on either side of you, the water changes colour with every mile you pass. At the top of the inlet you are met with 50 degree (f), glacier fed water, an amazing site. No, no swimming here, burr. On the return trip we stopped at an beautiful cascading waterfall, so close we could almost touch it. And then the incredible finale, a male adolescent Grizzly Bear forging on a beach, Jan's eagle eyes spotted this amazing animal which posed for a few pics before he disappeared into brush. Again, another great day here in Dezi Sound. 

Aug 02, 2016: Desolation Sound

Well for our first time up here in Desolation Sound we get some of that wet stuff, hmm what to do. We delayed our start by about an hour then simply zipped on all the boat covers and hope for the best. By the time we cruised down to the sweet spot of Dezi Sound, Prideau Haven, the rain stopped long enough for us to remove our covers to open up the views as we puttered around the big toys floating on the hook in this very popular bay. Prideau Haven is a very large protected anchorage with several arms allowing for several boats and shall I say yachts (and yes mega yachts) to spend a good part of the summer. A great a area to just float and admire, many of these yachts dingy's are larger than our boat, lol. 

So as we are cruising around I see what looks like a familiar boat name, Milagro, hmm, maybe I'll get close and sure enough there is Keg, friends and family, nice. We stopped for a little visit and chat, great seeing a old friend, looking great. 

From here we headed over to Refuge Cove for fuel and a late lunch at the infamous, Hamburger stand. Yum as we chow done cheeseburgers and fries - can anyone say "Cheeseburger in paradise". After a bit of shopping we headed back to Homfray Lodge in a pounding rain, fun..., first time running in such weather. I knew our water conditions were going to be okay, no gales or anything, just a chance we could get a bit wet. The boat covers worked out well, just got a bit wet, wished out boat had windshield wipers though. At the time of writing I am sitting on the boat with the tunes playing and the sun making a return, it is all good (a G&T in hand of course). Pictured with bbq oysters is Dave, one of the owners, this area is known for the amazing oysters, well he invited me to have a sample. His son Tod, barbecued these perfectly with olive oil, Tabasco sauce, seasoning salt and a bit of Parmesan cheese...absolutely delicious. It will be a late supper for me tonight. Here is our pics of the day, hope you enjoy...