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We went from Brentwood Bat to Clam Bay. We thought we would spend a couple of nights in Clam Bat and the maybe go to a couple other spots in the Gulf Islands – Cabbage Island – Jim’s favourite anchorage in the Gulf Island Marine Park.

It was beautiful weather the first day. We put the skiff in the water and went for a motor about Thetis Island.

There is a small narrow gap between Thetis Island and Penelakut Island that can only be navigated at certain tidal heights.

We went for a nice skiff ride – took a look around Telegraph Cove

There are two marinas in Telegraph Cove.

We came across a little sailboat that was being operated remotely by someone on shore

As we were motoring back to the boat we went by a home on Thetis Island where an old friend / colleague of Jim’s lived. Andy Lamb and his wife Virginia. We spotted some people in chairs in front of a house. We were not sure if it was the place we were looking for. So I yelled – Are you Andy Lamb? And he was ! So we met him at the shore and he was pretty thrilled to see Jim. They started working together in the mid 1970’s at the Vancouver Aquarium. We were invited for dinner. Which was home made pizza – fabulous pizza. There were other guests there as well. Another Vancouver Aquarium employee! We really enjoyed the evening and Jim and Andy reminisced about the past. We had a visit with Andy one summer at the Hakai Institute at Calvert Island. Great day in Clam Bay.

And then the next day the wind came up. Gale warning 25-35 knots from the North West.

And it was blowing a gale in Clam Bay. We were anchored in the South East corner of the bay and just got hammered by the wind.

It was quite the gale ! We had an interesting day watching boats coming and going and everyone blowing around. A group of six 60 year olds in an old Bayliner motored in and anchored up a little too closely. They spent most of afternoon drinking and jumping in the water.

Fortunately they did not spend the night. It was a pretty rough night. We were pitching and rolling. Lilly was definitely not happy.

The Gale warning was in effect for another 2-3 days so the next day we pulled the anchor and moved to the NW corner of Clam Bay – to be more in the lee of Thetis Island. And pulling an anchor in 20 knot winds is not very easy.

And it was hot. And Lilly was hot

It was too windy to go on the skiff and it was too hot for us ! And too windy to go anywhere especially out in Georgia Strait

And then on the 3rd day we looked west and there was the smoke from the fire around Port Alberni and Bamfield

The gale warning came off. And the heat dropped to 24c or so. And we decided to go home. We were still going to have a bit of a bumpy ride across Georgia Strait. But we had decided we had enough. Although we had a good summer. The last few days were not that enjoyable.

There was a gill net fishery in the Fraser River so we had to watch for Gill Net boats. Although Jim contacted DFO to ask if there was a fishery – no one at DFO seemed to know. Not did Fraser River Traffic Channel

And there is the big dredger in the river now. Just before Steveston.

We got back to home dock about 5 pm on August 14th.

Aside from the last week it was a pretty good trip. We were very pleased with the new skiff outboard. That was great to have this year. We will see what new summer brings