June 26 - Powell River to the Copeland Islands

Vancouver Island in the distance

The wake from our boat

After Jedediah Island, we made a pitstop at Powell River and today we moved on to the Copeland Islands.  It has been a perfect hot and sunny day.  In the Copeland Islands, we weaved around hidden obstacles (a rock and a wreck) to enter another tiny bay. There wasn’t enough room for us to anchor independently and so we “rafted” our boat to Eileen and Bill’s, M.V. Ceilidh I, for the night and tied a stern line to the shore.  The rafting process was surprisingly easy.  Within a confined space, Rob did a great job of getting us up beside the other boat and with lots of fenders hanging between the two boats we lashed them together with three different lines (ropes).   This arrangement offers each boat a little less privacy but makes it easy to convene for drinks, enjoy conversation over our adjacent sterns and get Bill to fix stuff on our boat.  Eileen and Bill have now welcomed onboard their friends Mary and Peter, longtime residents of Texada Island. We are enjoying their great company and local knowledge.  

Rafted together and tied to shore,
we did not even need to use our anchor

After dinner, Rob, Blue and I took a run out in our dinghy to drop our prawn trap in Malaspina Strait.   It was a clear, cool night on the water and the three of us quietly bobbed in the water and soaked up the quiet beauty.  The next morning, at low tide, we poked around the bay in our dinghy, marvelling (we're from the prairies, after all) at the size and number of Sea Stars on the rocks.  The rock we could not see, but took pains to avoid on our entry into the bay, was also revealed at low tide and looked more like a small island than a rock.