July 3, 2013 - Julian Cove

( BTW .... Yesterday's "stardate" was posted on the 3rd, but was actually about activities for the 2nd .... in case you're closely following the dates.)

July 3, 2013 – in Julian Cove

We left Winter Harbor after spending a relaxing morning chatting with the locals & fuelling up the dinghys.  The folks at the Qualicum Rivers Resort (at the government docks) run a “ship shape” lodge and are SO friendly (as everyone in the village seem to be) …. AND they have wifi (albeit painfully slow to download photos to this blog …. 2 HOURS for 16 photos ! YIKES !! ).  It’s a LOVELY little community.  As it turns out, there is a connection between Penny’s friend Lynn and the very nice fellow who traded "wine for fish" with me, although the connection wasn’t made until this morning.  Such a small world !! 

We ran into (probably a better expression would be "met up with" since we never want to "run into" anyone with our boat ... )  a couple of sailboats that shared our dock back in Port Hardy.  They left the same day we did and made the trek into Bull Harbor and then around the top of the island and pulled into Winter Harbor today … and there they were sitting outside The Outpost store as I walked by!!  They are generally heading in the same direction as we are and we will likely see them again on our way south ….

The scenery on the trip to Julian Cove, up Quatsino Sound is beyond spectacular… water, rocks and Christmas trees, Bill ???  (little inside joke with Mr. Cosman) ….

It is VERY remote with only a few signs of people at the various fish farms we saw en route, however, pulling into Julian Cove, there were two other boats …. I guess someone forgot to phone ahead and reserve.  J  There was room for everyone as we rafted together with Colibri and Malahide.

We dropped the dinghy’s and kayaks, ran some crab & prawn traps out into the sound and spent the evening enjoying the beautiful surroundings and feasting on scallops & salad, salmon chowder and rhubarb crumble with ice cream …. watched GALAXY QUEST (hysterical movie) then checked out the stars around midnite.  SPECTACULAR.

Checked the traps before the sun went down and other than a few prawns (Talbots trap)  and a honking big dog fish and one teeny crab ( Kemps trap) we didn’t catch much.  We will check them again tomorrow, but it looks like chicken for dinner tomorrow nite !!! 

Quatsino Sound …. never get tired of "water, rocks and Christmas trees" …. .

 

Malahide pulling into Julian cove

 

Penny kayaking around the bay …. Boats rafted …..