August 15 (HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER)– August 16
We spent today
cruising from Tofino to Barkley Sound. Our
first night anchorage was at Dodd Island in the Broken Group of Islands. We had
good weather and water for our open ocean stretch and found a really protected
bay for two nights. Steve, Di and I went
fishing and we got a couple of lingcods and Di got a keeper Rockfish. We caught
several other fish too small to keep and also a yelloweye which you are not
allowed to keep.
August 17 – Cataract Creek Cove
We
moved a few miles inland to Cataract Creek Cove. We have been here before and we spent some
time cruising in the jetboat up two of the local rivers. There are a lot of
floating homes here and also huge oyster farms (lots of oysters on the beach!).
August 18 – Rainy Bay Cove
We spent
the day exploring the area and Steve and I went fishing where we were rewarded
with 2 nice size silvers! Its Salmon
dinner tonight.
August 19 & 20
We moved up to Robbers Passage to be close
to Bamfield for our final leg around the island. We explored the Passage and area around
Bamfield including a trip to town for lunch and a walk along the boardwalk! Steve and I had the opportunity to do some more
fishing – it started off slow with a couple of small Lingcod and small rockfish
but we ended our fishing by doubling up with 2 Kings. It was a crazy way to end
the fishing part of our trip! Unfortunately I was not successful in netting
Steve’s – I was too excited to get his into the boat and then get mine netted.
I did not get under it enough, managed to knock it in the head with the net and
it spit out the hock and got free at the
last minute. We turned our attention to
mine which we netted so that helped the sting of not getting his into the boat!
I felt really bad but he was great about reminding me that he had a good fight
and it won the battle. I think I will
practice netting!
August 21 – Sydney Spit – We made the entire trip around the
end of Vancouver Island and decided to spend the night in Sydney Spit! It was an 11 ½ hour cruising day and we were
all happy to drop anchor and relax for the evening. It was a beautiful day of cruising – we had
great water, weather and a whale show!
August 22 – Todd Inlet – We decided after our long day
yesterday we would spend one more night at anchor in Canada before crossing
over to Roche Harbor and starting our trek home. We moved to Todd Inlet so that we could go to
Butchart Gardens and have one more night together with Glen and Liz and Rick
and Pam. Butchart Gardens was fun –
Steve and I have not been in over 20 years so it was a fun day.
August 23 – Happy 8th Anniversary to Tyler and
Amanda and 48th for Chris and Tom!
We said goodbye to our travel mates and headed for Roche Harbor. We stayed at Henry Island SYC Outstation and headed for home in sunshine and smooth water!
Our plan is to spend one more night on the boat close to home and go into our boathouse tomorrow so this is my last entry for the 2022 Trip around Vancouver Island. It was a great summer aboard the Nelsea and many many manymore happy boating memories!
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