Montague Harbor, Galiano Island
Yesterday morning we checked in at Poet's Cove. The customs officials were not happy that we did no check in when we arrived on Saturday even through we have a quarantine flag up. So a warning to anyone entering Canada by boat, please make sure you check in immediately, day or night, 7 days a week.
After check in we proceeded to Montague Harbor on Galiano Island. We have stopped here many times. In fact we stopped here in 2008 on the way back from the Broughton Islands and we counted over 200 boats here at that time. Today there are only about 40 boats.
We decided to relax a little, read books and take it easy, so we stayed here again today. It was nice to spend time in our enclosed cockpit, even when it is raining out. In the afternoon it cleared and the sun was out.
We have officially named our dingy, Boomerang. It continues with the Aborigine theme. When we were cruising in the South Pacific we stopped at the island nation of Niue, a small island east of Tonga. There is no anchorage at Niue, just an open roadstead with some mooring buoys at it is over 100 feet deep. One night our old dingy slipped the painter and drifted towards shore. As it was too dark to try an recover it then, so in the morning Rich went out with another cruiser to go look for it. They went up and down along the shore line looking. Finally there was a call on the VHF. The cargo ship that was coming to supply the island found a dingy drifting 10 miles away and they were asking if anyone lost one and that they were bringing it in. Well, yes, it was our dingy, minus an oar and the portable gas tank. So, in memory of the old dingy, we named our new one, Boomerang, hoping it will always return to us. We also put 2 name plates with Boomerang in black letters on the bow of the dingy.
Tomorrow we plan to go through Porlier Pass and across the Straits of Georgia to Vancouver.
By the way I forgot to mention in our last report that we saw at least a half dozen pilot whales as we crossed the Straits towards Cattle Pass. This was the first time I had seen them in this area. I looked for Orcas but I did not see any.
No worries,
SV Windarra
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