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Anita Marie



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:30 pm    Post subject: Broughtons August trip Reply with quote

My wife Robbin has finished a blog on our trip.



http://ryoungwriter.com/?page_id=1415
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 11:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Terrific blog, Robbin! You really captured the heart and soul of the Broughtons! I especially enjoyed the segment on Billy Proctor, an institution as well as a wonderful character. Anyone looking for a sample of the way things were, just has to sit down with Billy for fifteen minutes.

A note on that brown water. Most of the coloring comes from tannins leached from leaves, principally alder, and is akin to what comes from tea leaves. However, any surface water in the Broughtons should be treated before drinking, and the best solution is to take on beaucoup water from a reliable shoreside source, as time allows.

The many practical notes in Robbin's blog make it a good primer for anyone contemplating a cruise through the region.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 11:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Loved your blog Robbin! Sounds like a great and memorable trip!
Good job on the fishing Fred!

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robbin, what a great trip report! Nice writing!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice! Thank you for taking us along! Thumbs Up

Great writing and images!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The best writing of any trip north that I have read. What a wonderful writer. Thank you so much.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Fred & Robbin for sharing. Brought back many happy memories of places and very special people.

Merv & Kathy

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A wonderfully descriptive blog of the trip. It brings out the difficulties that the floating camps face--and that is so important for all of the visitors to understand.

Well done! Thank you!

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:13 pm    Post subject: Thanks! I've added some stuff Reply with quote

Thanks Fred for posting the link, and to the rest of you for the kind words about the article. I figured out how to add links to make it easier to find specific sections, and, of course, added more pictures!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great blog Robbin! It sounds like quite an adventure. A great read for sure.

Peter & Caryn
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I enjoyed the words and photos you two. Glad you had a nice trip and I plan to read about the next one. I first visited the area by kayak about 10 years ago and have been fascinated and enchanted with the area ever since. We should be back there in the next 2 years if all goes as planned.

I average two trailering trips to the island each year and my trick with driving up is to take the 5:15am ferry from Tswassenn to Nanaimo and push north and launch all in one day. Its a long day but worth it when you are anchored in a lagoon by dinner and have days of sleeping-in to look forward to.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We originally had an early ferry from Anacortes but they lost one ferry so the afternoon sailing was the only one.
If we trailer again I will take the BC ferry and not WDT ferry.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anita Marie wrote:
We originally had an early ferry from Anacortes but they lost one ferry so the afternoon sailing was the only one.
If we trailer again I will take the BC ferry and not WDT ferry.
From Oak Harbor, the Port Angeles ferry allows you to avoid all of I-5. BC ferries run about the same cost as the Port Angeles - Victoria ferry. The drive along Hood Canal is beautiful, albeit mostly on a curvy two lane highway.

Agree the Anacortes to Sidney ferry sucks.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Trailering north, up island, consider the BC Ferry on their Vancouver Island promotional days. About half price off on the trailer fee this year. I do as Greg said, make the first ferry (05:15), and drive up and launch the same day. Not hard, or get a late ferry and stay at the Campbell River Trailer Hilton (AKA Walmart Camping club lot, with about 23 of your closest ferry friends whop are also north bound.)

I grew up in Sidney, and we used the Anacortes ferry all the time. Those days it was leave early and stop at all the islands each way. Different now.

Great blog, super pictures, and nice write up. So sorry you missed Port Harvey, it is just around the corner from Laggon Cove, and the run UP Chatham Channel is fun. It is like running up hill on the water, and you get to do the Securetay call and the Range Mark run.

Good blog for anyone going up it gives a good all around view. I was surprised at you disappointment in the wildlife. I have found bears and whales in multiple places there along with the seals, otters and even raccoons.

Nice to have two boats so you can get pix back and forth and include them in the photos. Glad you had such a good trip.

Harvey
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great blog post and photos. Our family was at Echo Bay Aug 10/11 in our 22' C-Dory so we probably just missed you. We stayed a couple of nights in their lodge accommodations which was very nice, a considerable upgrade on the space of a C-Dory and probably almost as nice as some of the huge yachts tied up out front. My 2 boys had a lot of fun dock fishing with the friendly local dog Sam-Sam. And we had the same experience prawn fishing, I think we did 4 sets to get a total of about 30 prawns. Really enjoyed Billy Proctor's museum, some incredible stuff there. Most interesting for me was all the old time fishing gear like his kelp cutter flashers from the 50s and handmade wooden lingcod plugs.
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