joBeeArt: Powell River Canada Aug 27 - Point Roberts, USA Sept 1

We arrived in Powell River at Westview Harbor in the rain. We expected to stay one day, but the weather had other ideas. We spent 3 days there, along with many many other boats. They kept coming in but no one left. The dock was chuck-a-block as George's mom used to say.

These are 3 separate docks. Boat rafted in so thick, you could walk across them from dock to dock.

We were there during some of the lowest tides of the year.

This was climbing up in the morning.

This dog's master hurried down the ramp to his boat, and his apprehensive dog studied the situation for a while ....

and then went for it .....

....and succeeded in conquering his fears.

We took a few bus rides over the three day layover. Great way to site sea especially if you have a bus driver who's a "wanna be tour guide". It was fun seeing and learning the behind the scenes of this mill town.

This is the captain waiting at the bus stop.

Finally on Augst 30, it was mass exodus from Westview Harbor under sunny skies.

Power boats

and Sail boats....

.....all heading south.

We arrived at Pender Harbor mid afternoon. It was like a day at the beach. Probably one of the prettiest days we had had in weeks.

The captain enjoying the sunshine on the foredeck in shirtsleeves. No polar fleece today.

And who should pull in, but Journey. This is a boat George encountered many years ago on his first time through British Columbia. He and Dave kept crossing tracks. Now nary a year goes by that we don't see Journey in our journeys. Dave and his wife were holed up in Powell River with us also for those 3 days.

Pretty fun how this works.

This is the "paper bag trick" for louring bees. An old First Nation man at Butedale told us about this one. Lo and behold, we encountered bees buzzing our boat, and this bag filled with air seemed to keep them at bay.

We left Pender Harbor in full sun and no wind,
the second prettiest day of the summer.

When we arrived in Port Graves midday, many boats were already anchored. By this time the waters had gotten rough and it was hard finding a spot that was out of the wind. We did and had a good night.

Early Monday morning (September 1) we departed for Point Roberts and our re-entry into the United States. It was Labor Day in Canada also.