Tony & Sherry Wentworth At Pierre's at Echo Bay ( Gilford Island )Go to their website at http://www.pierresbay.com/ or call 250-713-6415
Tove - ( Half of Pierre and Tove)
Pierre ( The other half of Pierre and Tove )
The Ultimate Pig Roaster. A pig roast is done each week at The Marina.
Local prawns caught today by our neighbours beside us in the marina. We had a prawn feed tonight that was spectacular. These are monster prawns.
July 9, 2010 We layed around in Blind Channel for 2 days soaking up the sun and reading books. The forecast for the Johnson Straight was calling for gale force winds for the whole week. We decided to push through to the Broughtons, as I am not worried about the boats ability to take on heavy water on the bow. It wasn"t bad at all. There may have been a few areas with 4-5 ft seas, but nothing serious. Lots of salt spray on the boat. A pod of porpoise started jumping in front of our boat around Hardwicke island. They stayed with us for about 10 minutes. We turned up Havannah channel & dropped anchor in Burial Cove.
Burial Cove 50 33.588 N; 126 12.976 W
A great place to anchor in a westerly wind.
July 10, 2010
We pulled anchor and made our way to Chatham Channel to the north of us. You need to go through on slack tide as it is very shallow and has a narrow passage. There are range markers that you have to follow to ensure you stay in the proper channel, or you could run aground. To make matters interesting, this morning is a low tide of 1.7 feet. It doesn't give much room for error. The transit through the channel went off well. There were several boats all going through at the same time. The view in this area is spectacular. There are high mountains with shear walls hundreds of feet high that come straight down to the water. We follow the channel to the east side of Minstral Island. To the east there is an anchorage called Cutter Cove.
Cutter Cove 50 37.165 N; 126 16.048 W
This is a great anchorage that can hold dozens of boats. You are open somewhat to the westerlies, however we dropped anchor in 35 feet of water and layed out 175 of chain. Springer held fast with 25 knt winds whipping into the bay. We layed out a crab trap, but got skunked.
July 11, 2010
This morning the winds were calm, but there is low lying fog. Visibility was still good with about a mile of visbility. We pulled anchor and made way to Pierre's at Echo Bay. Pierre is famous for his pig roast that he does weekly.
Burial Cove 50 33.588 N; 126 12.976 W
A great place to anchor in a westerly wind.
July 10, 2010
We pulled anchor and made our way to Chatham Channel to the north of us. You need to go through on slack tide as it is very shallow and has a narrow passage. There are range markers that you have to follow to ensure you stay in the proper channel, or you could run aground. To make matters interesting, this morning is a low tide of 1.7 feet. It doesn't give much room for error. The transit through the channel went off well. There were several boats all going through at the same time. The view in this area is spectacular. There are high mountains with shear walls hundreds of feet high that come straight down to the water. We follow the channel to the east side of Minstral Island. To the east there is an anchorage called Cutter Cove.
Cutter Cove 50 37.165 N; 126 16.048 W
This is a great anchorage that can hold dozens of boats. You are open somewhat to the westerlies, however we dropped anchor in 35 feet of water and layed out 175 of chain. Springer held fast with 25 knt winds whipping into the bay. We layed out a crab trap, but got skunked.
July 11, 2010
This morning the winds were calm, but there is low lying fog. Visibility was still good with about a mile of visbility. We pulled anchor and made way to Pierre's at Echo Bay. Pierre is famous for his pig roast that he does weekly.
Pierre's at Echo Bay 50 45.133 N; 126 29.858 W
We tied up at the marina and will R&R here for a few days.
We tied up at the marina and will R&R here for a few days.
July 12, 2010
Today we walked over to Billy Proctor's museum. This is a short albeit interesting walk that takes you through a winding trail that was made for billy goats. Billy Proctor has lived in this area in entire life and has amassed an interested museum of artifacts. There are arrow heads dating back 8000 years. He has marine hardware, bottles, logging equipment. All of this, he calls junk. Today was a massive blow in the channel and it was good to stay on the docks and do some maintenance and read a few books. Tonight was fish and chip night. Pierre did the cooking and he didn"t disapoint. It was fantastic.
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