The area where the yacht club is located is called Cow Bay. To follow this theme, local shops have Cow in the name (Cowpaccino is a coffee shop) and things like street signs, awnings, trash cans, garbage dumpsters are all painted like black and white cows.
We went to the Museum of Northern British Columbia and looked for books and guides for the Queen Charlottes. I bought an orca charm for our boat necklace/log. This is similar to what we did on our trip across the South Pacific. I have a bead for each day. It is dark blue for an overnight passage, lighter blue for anchoring out or green for staying at a marina. I add charms to mark events or places such as a small totem pole charm for Ketchikan. The orca charm is a Salish design and it also signifies the spirit of the Traveller. It seems to be fitting.
After the museum we stopped at the Starbucks in Safeway so I could connect to the internet and do a few things. We walked around checking out bookstores, the marine store, laundry facilities. We stopped at the Breakers Pub which is right next door to the yacht club so I could finish my internet chores while we had nachos and Rich got a CNN fix. 10 minutes of CNN was all that was needed.
SV Windarra
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