The next morning we woke to a windy day. The wind was forecast to rise to gale force blowing right down Johnstone straight; naturally the direction we wanted to head and so our plans for the day were ...

This morning was the start of the 'real' adventure (as if the preceding days hadn't taught us enough). We were now moving beyond the towns of Vancouver Island and into the lands where there were few ...

Benjy and Heidi still smiling as we near Campbell River After a rest day in Comox we were both now psyched up for the long haul up to Campbell River. We were out of our slip at Comox at around ...

The night had been quite blowy last night but the hook had held steady but we were up and about early and left False bay feeling sprightly and looking forward to seeing Lottie in Comox. With a fairly ...

Refreshed and ready for the next stage of the journey, our next aim was to get up to Campbell River. With few good spots to stop we knew these were going to be long days but crossing and recrossing t ...

Although we were still in June, it felt like we had already had quite the adventure since leaving Todd Inlet (a whole four days ago) so we decided that we should have an admin day in Nanaimo. We foun ...

We slept well even with the heat and woke the next morning none the worse for the heatstroke of the day before. In taking photo's of the sunset though I had clearly spent too long staring directly at ...

Flat calm in Maple Bay This mornings we woke again to flat calm and what promised to be the hottest day of the year. Our plan was to head to a spot called Pirates Cove; a good six hour day at ...

Our first leg - Todd Inlet to Nanaimo So today we finally left for 2 months together sailing the highways and byways of Vancouver Island. With some trepidation we raised our anchor f ...

Today was our last day before truly setting off on our grand adventure. We had done a Costco run on Friday and with the car stocked full of tins and pasta we headed back to the boat at Todd Inlet. W ...