Blogs from Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada, North America

Tuesday May 15, 2012 Nanaimo to Von Donop Inlet When we got up at 5:00 AM it was still windy and "Jenny B" was already gone. Being hardened sailors we took off anyway and once out in the Straits we knew it would be a long bumpy trip to Campbell River. We could see "Jenny B" several miles ahead and John called and suggested we could quarter the waves across the Straits of Georgia to Malsipina Strait and hug the mainland side where it might be better. (They were headed to see friends on Hornby Island or they would have come too.) Good idea. So we turned to go south of Lasqueti Island and Texada Island and pitched through four-foot waves, 20-knot winds and tacked to find the most comfortable line until we did come up ... read more

Well, we left Hope and headed north up the Fraser Canyon. We stopped off at the very quaint little town of Yale, but decided that we’re far too tight to pay $6 each to walk around a tiny little church. So we carried on and stopped instead at the (free!) Alexandra Bridge over the Fraser River, where you could see right through the bridge deck to the river below. (Guess who was overjoyed at that one!) And then again at the Hells Gate Airtram (i.e. cable car). Yep, it really was Craig’s day! We carried on to the Skihist Provincial Park, just outside Lytton. Lytton sits in the rain shadow of the Coastal Mountains, so it’s very hot and dry. So we made the most of it and had a lazy afternoon of sunbathing. Just as ... read more

Le 25 juillet, a notre depart de Vancouver, nous ne savions toujours pas si nous pouvions rallier la Sunshine Coast. Nous avons tout de meme reussit a attraper un vieux bus, identique a celui qu'emprunte Morgan Freeman pour rejoindre Ziwattanera dans le film "les evades" (Shawshank Redemption) et avons debarque dans un petit bled, au detour de deux chemins, ou il fallait encore faire 8 bornes pour atteindre le camping. Nous decidons alors de faire a nouveau du pouce et embarquons rapidement a l'arriere d'un pick-up, qui, a notre grande deception, s'arrete quelques centaines de metre plus loin. En realite, les deux autochtones le conduisant - Barbara et Dave - veulent nous indiquer une superbe randonnee a effectuer, surplombant la baie vers laquelle nous nous dirigeons. Or, Barbara avait prevu de grimper le lendemain et nous ... read more

Greetings from Terry and Kelley....on the Sunshine Coast. We are about to embark on a new kind of adventure. Our back packs are loaded as our departure is just 2 days away. We land in Bangkok (via Seoul, Korea), and will stay a few days. Then head south to islands on the Andaman Sea, spend some time in the jungle and then the east coast islands on the Gulf of Thailand. That is our basic plan. We are on the look out for that perfect hut on the beach, seafood galore, a new culture to absorb, and amazing diving/snorkle sites. We will be meeting Alicia during our trip as she makes her way to Thailand from Malaysia where she is travelling right now! I am not sure how much blogging we will do but hope to ... read more

Well, once again, I'm a blog slacker. Sorry it's taken me so long to do these entries! I think it's the fact that I have so much to say about everything that I feel like I need to take a couple hours to do this... so I keep putting it off until I have time. Hopefully I will finish this one tonight. So, I left off in the last post talking about Chatterbox Falls. I also need to add that, on the Princess Louisa cruise, Katie and I played fiddle on the boat (she taught me several fiddle tunes -- I'm SO not a fiddle expert.) That was the first time I had played violin on a boat! Wednesday evening, we just hung out around the lodge. We found out about the bridge collapse two hours ... read more