We have made it to Nanaimo, and are having breakfast at an outdoor café and happily I am worrying about getting to much sun.

The days have been wonderful, the boat is behaving nicely, we have hit the tides perfectly and the food is good.

Yesterday, after a night at anchor beside Russell Island, we went for a hike around the Island and visited the homestead of the Hawaiian settlers brought there by the Hudson Bay Company for laboring in the fur trade. Apparently there were hundreds of Hawaiians around Salt Spring Island.

After the hike we tied up in Fulford Harbor for a walk and bus ride into Ganges. Becky bought some Oysters

and roasted them on the Grill yesterday afternoon as we motored through Dodd Narrows. We hit the rapids perfectly and continued onto Newcastle Park in Nanaimo and picked up a mooring. It was a wonderful evening and we watched the planes take off, a sailing race as we ate and after dinner took a sunset hike around the park.

So it’s a pulled pork wrap, keeping the Hawaiian theme going, for breakfast and a trip to the nautical book store and across the Straits of Georgia and into the fiords and Princes Louisa later today