July 21 - July 24th Cortes, Garden Bay, Ovens Island

The great weather continues for us as we make our way home. It is hard to believe that our trip is coming to an end - it has been an amazing trip.

We left Cortes for Garden Bay in beautiful weather on July 21.  We  spent one night at Garden Bay and were treated to a wonderful sunset.  The change at Dodd Narrows is mid morning  so our plan is to get up early and leave so we can cross the straits and be at Dodd by 10:00am.

After a great sunset we were also treated to a nice sunrise over Garden Bay.

 Crossing the Straits

Dodd Narrows at slack

 

 

We arrived at Ovens Island which is a SYC outpost near Ladysmith and Chemainus.  We have not been here before and are going to spend a few days exploring the area - Allen and Sue are joining us today.

 

                                          Picture of Ladysmith from Ovens Island

                                    Nelsea tied up at the dock at Ovens Island

                                            Allen and Sue- Big Easy  coming to Ovens Island

                                                Ovens Island

   Steve and I took the dinghy to explore Chemainus.  It is a great little city - it was Wednesday and they have a Farmers Market on Wednesdays in the Park which was fun to see.  Chemainus is a really nice city that has many wall murals that show the history of the town.

After touring Chemainus we went back to the boat and saw a logging barge being unloaded in the bay.  They lower one side until all the logs fall into the bay - it was an amazing site and the logs fall off much faster than we would have guessed they would.

We left Ovens Island on July 24th  with Allen and Sue and we are headed to Annette Inlet which is across the water from Ganges.  This is a place Steve and I went 29 years ago on our honeymoon and is one of our favorite anchorages in the Gulf Islands.