Canada

See what I did there? Through. Yes kids, that’s how cavemen spelled thru. If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you’ll have seen plenty… Read More »Through the Back Door

Several of you, my faithful readers, have asked whether we finally took delivery of Étude and whether we were finally cruising. Yes and yes. We… Read More »A Shortened Cruise

It’s been said that the thousands of kilometers of dry stone walls found in the United Kingdom and Ireland might be considered the Eighth Wonder… Read More »The Ninth Wonder of the World

We met a woman who had been in the Broughtons for several months and was ready to go home. “After a while”, she said, “it’s… Read More »Rocks, rocks, rocks… Trees, trees, trees…

During Japan’s Edo period the phrase “the floating world” evoked an imagined universe of wit, stylishness, and extravagance—with overtones of naughtiness, hedonism, and transgression. But… Read More »The Floating World

Bill Proctor has lived all of his 85 years in the Broughton area. He worked as a logger, trapper and fisherman for many years. Later… Read More »Billy Proctor’s Museum

That this native village , better known today as New Vancouver, exists is a testament to the vision and determination of one man. A combination… Read More »Tsatsisnukwomi

After hearing the sad story of Port Harvey, I thought you might enjoy seeing a marina that is thriving. Lagoon Cove, run by the Ryan… Read More »Alive and Well

We had to cheat a little on the “run rapids at slack” rule in order to get to the Broughtons today. We hit Green Point… Read More »The Zombie Marina

We ran the Gillard and Dent rapids early and uneventfully, bound for Blind Channel marina. This will be our last stop before heading into the… Read More »Getting close!

Did you have story problems when you were in school? Microsoft used to think that the ability to solve them was a good measure of… Read More »A Story Problem

Another out-of-order post, sorry. While we waited out the weather in Pender Harbor, we used our “day off” to do a few boat chores, then… Read More »Pender Harbor Layover

Unless a road is a loop, it has to end somewhere, right? Well, Highway 101 which runs from California to Oregon to Washington to British… Read More »The End of the Road

If you try to plan a boat voyage like you plan most other trips, you will probably wind up very unhappy. Like an early start?… Read More »The Merits of Opportunism