The view of the bay at the head of Drew Harbour
Nance "posing" for a shot on the beach driftwood
Me contemplating the meaning of life or something akin to that!
The docks at Taku Resort in Drew Harbour where three BYC boats were moored
Milt Wong's new home in a secluded grove of trees on the resort property
We slept in today and leisurely started the day to beautiful blue skies and not a cloud to be seen. Shorts and tee shirts for certain.
We ran over to Rebecca Spit at the mouth of Drew Harbour on Quadra Island which is one of our all time favorite anchorages and we plan to spend the rest of our trip here until we have to start our trip down to Vancouver via Pender Harbour.
We anchored near the head of Drew Harbour and with the exception of a few water ski boats and occasional boom boxes going on shore it is really great here. It was sunny all day today and we took advantage of this by running around in our dinghy seeing the whole area. We cruised the other boats looking for anyone we knew but it was a mostly Royal Vancouver Yacht Club crowd so we returned to our boat for a delicious dinner.
We awoke today, Tuesday to rain which was forecasted, (sun tomorrow is the forecast) so we are just getting going and ended up taking our kayaks into the beach and walked all around the spit which separates Drew Harbour from the outside waters in Desolation Sound. We got a bunch of exercise and ended up at our favorite hot dog/ice cream stand near the head of the Harbour where the campers are all located. To our undying disappointment the stand was closed and is for sale. I think I will pass on the real estate opportunity but I was really looking forward to that ice cream cone. We continued on to the little campground store and had to settle for cream sicles. We awoke today Wednesday to bright blue skies and hot sunshine. I went swimming off the boat before 10:00 AM so you know it was hot. We took the dinghy over to the Taku Resort owned for twenty five years this year by Milt Wong. Each year that we visit Rebecca Spit we drop over to Taku to chat with Milt and in past years he had shown us his proposed construction site for a new home. Well this time we saw the finished product and it is really spectacular. The home is huge, beautifully landscaped and very tasteful.
From there we satisfied our craving for ice cream at Heriot Bay right next to Drew Harbour. It was Island Farms ice cream which in our experience is really good but particularly so in isolated locations where it tends to be more of an unexpected treat.
We then jumped in the kayaks and went back to the spit for another hike and to let Nance go swimming from the shore as she is not exactly your jump off the boat type. Well she finally got wet so all is well with the first mate.
We are sorry to leave Rebecca Spit as it is predicted to get really hot tomorrow and we will be in Pender Harbour all going well which will probably be considerably hotter than it would have been here. Oh well, only two days to go and our adventure is over. I really can't believe how fast the time past. Not quite so fast for Nance but she has been great about the whole trip and a real trooper.
We ran over to Rebecca Spit at the mouth of Drew Harbour on Quadra Island which is one of our all time favorite anchorages and we plan to spend the rest of our trip here until we have to start our trip down to Vancouver via Pender Harbour.
We anchored near the head of Drew Harbour and with the exception of a few water ski boats and occasional boom boxes going on shore it is really great here. It was sunny all day today and we took advantage of this by running around in our dinghy seeing the whole area. We cruised the other boats looking for anyone we knew but it was a mostly Royal Vancouver Yacht Club crowd so we returned to our boat for a delicious dinner.
We awoke today, Tuesday to rain which was forecasted, (sun tomorrow is the forecast) so we are just getting going and ended up taking our kayaks into the beach and walked all around the spit which separates Drew Harbour from the outside waters in Desolation Sound. We got a bunch of exercise and ended up at our favorite hot dog/ice cream stand near the head of the Harbour where the campers are all located. To our undying disappointment the stand was closed and is for sale. I think I will pass on the real estate opportunity but I was really looking forward to that ice cream cone. We continued on to the little campground store and had to settle for cream sicles. We awoke today Wednesday to bright blue skies and hot sunshine. I went swimming off the boat before 10:00 AM so you know it was hot. We took the dinghy over to the Taku Resort owned for twenty five years this year by Milt Wong. Each year that we visit Rebecca Spit we drop over to Taku to chat with Milt and in past years he had shown us his proposed construction site for a new home. Well this time we saw the finished product and it is really spectacular. The home is huge, beautifully landscaped and very tasteful.
From there we satisfied our craving for ice cream at Heriot Bay right next to Drew Harbour. It was Island Farms ice cream which in our experience is really good but particularly so in isolated locations where it tends to be more of an unexpected treat.
We then jumped in the kayaks and went back to the spit for another hike and to let Nance go swimming from the shore as she is not exactly your jump off the boat type. Well she finally got wet so all is well with the first mate.
We are sorry to leave Rebecca Spit as it is predicted to get really hot tomorrow and we will be in Pender Harbour all going well which will probably be considerably hotter than it would have been here. Oh well, only two days to go and our adventure is over. I really can't believe how fast the time past. Not quite so fast for Nance but she has been great about the whole trip and a real trooper.
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