Vancouver to Port McNeill, Vancouver Is

Overnight Anchorages

Vancouver (1)
Smugglers Cove (2)
Egmont, Schelt Penninsula (3)
Princess Louisa Inlet (4)
Sturt Bay, Texada I (5)
Copeland Islands (6)
Grace Hbr, Desolation Sound (7)
Tenedos Bay, Desolation Sound (8)
Laura Cove, Desolation Sound (9)
Big Bay (10)
Port Harvey (11)
Port McNeill (12)
Blunden Harbour (13)
Allison Inlet (14)
Summers Bay, Alison Sound (15)
Strachan Bay, Belize Sound (16)
Charlotte Bay, Seymour Inlet (17)
Nugent Sound (18)
Miles Inlet (19)
Walker Group (20)
Sointula, Malcolm Island (21)
Port McNeill (22)

Photo Pages:
Granville Island, Vancouver
Princess Louisa
Macro Lens in Tenedos Bay

Summary Log - Leg 2

Leg 2 reunites Tom & Liz on Onward, and we love it all. We spend almost a month exploring the mainland side of British Columbia 's Inside Passage from Vancouver city north to the Belize and Seymour Inlets inside the Nakwakto Rapids. Our kayaks follow our anchor into the water in every cove and bay, so we glide and look in silence and awe. We revisit many places familiar from previous summers, but some territories are completely new to us, such as Princess Louisa Inlet and inside the Nakwakto Rapids. We disappear into books through iPods or paper with delightful frequency, but re-surface when summoned by the other. Our daily email check-in and our grace before the evening meal brings us close to our family, friends, and the outside world, the latter otherwise in danger of fading from consciousness.

Statistics: 22 days total (excluding time in Vancouver), 22 travel days (78.9 hours of motoring averaging 3.6 hours per travel day), 498 miles covered at an average speed of 6.3 knots; 5 nights in marinas after leaving Vancouver.

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