Deja Vu

We spent another day in Drew Harbour and finally re-launched the dinghy (it has been riding on deck for over 2 weeks now). The day started out overcast, but by 10 AM the blue sky appeared and the sun came out. For a few hours is was lovely and we took the dinghy to shore, where we were able to take a walk on Rebecca Spit. Impressive collection of driftwood along both sides of the spit, the obvious results of severe storms in the past.

We thought we would take the dinghy to Heriot Bay, at the entrance to Drew Harbour, to do a little shopping at the local store. However, as we got to the north end of the harbour the wind and waves forced us to turn back for fear of swamping our poor little dinghy (actually the crew just didn't want to get wet).
Once we got back to the mother ship, we were faced with more wind and waves, as we stuggled to get the outboard stowed, with the dinghy pitching up and down. Where we are anchored, at the far south end of the harbour, leaves us wide open to the NW winds, which makes for a rather bumpy ride, even in the big boat. We spent the rest of the day in the cockpit, partially sheltered from the wind, and entertained ourselves by reading and watching the boats come and go. Without the wind it would have been a terrific place to spend more time.

It was interesting last night, when the winds came up after about 6 PM; a lot of the boats that were anchored around us, started pulling up their anchors and heading to the north end of the harbour, in hopes of finding less wave action. Based on what I saw up there today, I'm not sure it made any difference.

Today, we made the move to continue south, into the Strait of Georgia. There are not a lot of places we like to stop in this northern stretch of the strait, so we made the long (50 mile) journey all the way to False Bay on Lasqueti Island, one of our favorite anchorages - motored all the way. This was the first place we stopped when we left Nanaimo and will probably be the last place we stop before we are back. One big difference is that it is very busy here now; lots of boats at anchor. When we were here in June, we almost had the place to ourselves.

The weather today turned into full "summer" mode, for the first time in ages. Bright blue sky and sunshine all day. And the anchorage in False Bay is much calmer than what we have been experiencing for the last couple of weeks. We were able to just relax and work on our tans this afternoon. We may just stay here a day or two before we head back to Nanaimo. Somehow it figures that we have spent two months looking for the good weather, only to find it within 30 miles of our home port.
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