Spring 2019 - Bellingham to Lyall Harbour
19.04.19 // Categories: Spring 2019
Friday April 19, 2019
Although the plan was to stay on the boat last night, by the time Greg got home from dumping all the groceries on the boat in the pouring rain, and seeing that the rain was going to continue, we decided to not go down to the boat after dinner. Stayed nice and cozy.
So up at 6:30 this morning and packed up all the last minute items and did some last minute house cleaning (of course!) and we were at the boat by 8:00. Got things put away and left the dock at 9:00 heading for Port Browning. The first part of Bellingham Bay was a little lumpy with small whitecaps, but by the time we were half way through it had already settled down a bit. Up Hale Passage was lovely and perfect for coffee time. As we came out the north end we were greeted with flat calm water and a following current which at one point carried us up to 11.9 knots!
Ocean Flyer was still in Port Browning so we waved at them as we hovered outside the dock. Greg wanted to go inside the breakwater to check out the new dock system but it made the (very young) Harbour Master a little nervous as he had a bunch of boats coming in. So we turned around and left and followed Ocean Flyer over to Lyall Harbour where it was calm and lovely. Got anchored up on the north side and quite happy that the anchor and systems still worked. It had been quite some time since we had used them and we had not done our pre-season checkout!
Put the dingy in the water just as it started to rain and headed over to Ocean Flyer for a visit. While there we made plans and the weather cleared up nicely. We decided that we should go to the pub for dinner! Back to Spellbound for a bit, and then OF picked us up in their dingy and we headed to the public dock to look around and have dinner. It turns out that tomorrow is "Prawn Fest" on Saturna Island (who knew?) and there was a dinner (all you can eat prawns) and a dance (do you have to do the prawn dance?). We decided to pass since we already had reservations at the Saturna Island Cafe.
Dinner was great! Even with Dark Matter beer.
Although the plan was to stay on the boat last night, by the time Greg got home from dumping all the groceries on the boat in the pouring rain, and seeing that the rain was going to continue, we decided to not go down to the boat after dinner. Stayed nice and cozy.
So up at 6:30 this morning and packed up all the last minute items and did some last minute house cleaning (of course!) and we were at the boat by 8:00. Got things put away and left the dock at 9:00 heading for Port Browning. The first part of Bellingham Bay was a little lumpy with small whitecaps, but by the time we were half way through it had already settled down a bit. Up Hale Passage was lovely and perfect for coffee time. As we came out the north end we were greeted with flat calm water and a following current which at one point carried us up to 11.9 knots!
Ocean Flyer was still in Port Browning so we waved at them as we hovered outside the dock. Greg wanted to go inside the breakwater to check out the new dock system but it made the (very young) Harbour Master a little nervous as he had a bunch of boats coming in. So we turned around and left and followed Ocean Flyer over to Lyall Harbour where it was calm and lovely. Got anchored up on the north side and quite happy that the anchor and systems still worked. It had been quite some time since we had used them and we had not done our pre-season checkout!
Put the dingy in the water just as it started to rain and headed over to Ocean Flyer for a visit. While there we made plans and the weather cleared up nicely. We decided that we should go to the pub for dinner! Back to Spellbound for a bit, and then OF picked us up in their dingy and we headed to the public dock to look around and have dinner. It turns out that tomorrow is "Prawn Fest" on Saturna Island (who knew?) and there was a dinner (all you can eat prawns) and a dance (do you have to do the prawn dance?). We decided to pass since we already had reservations at the Saturna Island Cafe.
Dinner was great! Even with Dark Matter beer.