Thursday, August 14, 2008

August 14 - Pender Harbour


Here is the Burrard Yacht Club outstation at Pender Harbour


The entrance to Garden Bay in Pender Harbour

What a great day! It is really hot already at 7:00 AM so we should be in bathing suits all the way to Pender. Our neighbor from Pasley Island, Cec Merritt arrived yesterday afternoon on Jupiter II so he rowed over last night to hear about our Alaska trip. Cec was one of the people to give me badly needed advice during the planning stages of our trip since he has been to Alaska several times. So he was glad to hear that I had heeded much of his advice.
We had a perfect run down to Pender Harbour, the seas were flat calm and the sun was hot. For the first time on the trip I had to roll up some windows in my bridge enclosure to let in some cooling air.
We arrived at Pender Harbour around 3:00 and were assisted in docking by Mitch Welters and his wife Grace, from BYC. We spent some time getting caught up on Vancouver stuff and all went out for dinner at the Garden Bay Pub. They must have recently changed chefs however since the meal We had tonight was not anything like it was on the way north two months ago. We had always enjoyed this restaurant but will think twice next time we are through Pender.
It is cooling down a bit tonight so hopefully we will sleep well in preparation for our last day of the trip and our return to Vancouver.

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