Starting on the long way home After having spent a wonderful few days with Lottie we realised that we were now about half way through our fantastic sojourn on the water. We had given u ...

With Lottie with us for the week and needing to be back in Victoria for work by Saturday, we decided to explore the local settlements around Port MacNeil rather than going on a big adventure. ...

Leaving Echo Bay Marina after a leisurely morning, we motored down to Cullen Harbour dropped the kayaks and spent a pleasant couple of hours touring around. As the evening drew in it started raining ...

Leaving Greenway sound we kept progressing clockwise around Broughton Island heading for Simoon Sound. As we got into the main channel the wind freshened and with full sails we cruised around through ...

After our morning adventure with the Grizzley in Grappler Sound we again took to our kayaks and SUPS and explored another lagoon not far away. This one we even more remote and we felt very lucky to h ...

With our great trip north behind us we were now looking to kicking back and learn what cruising is really about. Lottie was due to join us on the 25th so we had 8 days to carry out a grand tour of th ...

We had been away from civilization for 9 days now and could finally start seeing the end of what had been a very adventurous journey up north. By now we had made the decision that going round the isl ...

There are no real options for this part of the journey north, everyone is pushed onto Johnstone straight for a long stretch. The only possible place to stop is at Port Neville; an old post office in ...

We woke early on Tuesday morning in order to hit slack water going through Chatham Channel, but not as early as our neighbours overnight who must have been off before 05:30. Chatham Channel ...

We spent Thursday 8th July recuperating from the last couple of days. Such a change; from dread and terror to lounging around a resort, reading books and soaking up the sun. Blind channel to ...