Our original plan this weekend was to head to Otter Bay, but it was chocked full, so we instead returned to Montague again. Although we were just there last weekend, we really don’t ever tire of the place. We had planned to anchor, but seeing as how we forgot to fill our water tanks -and there was space on the dock- we tied up for the weekend. The occupants of the boat tied beside us looked familar, and they kept looking over the same way. As it turned out, we were slipped at PRM beside them 2 seasons ago.
Basically it was just another great weekend of relaxing; throwing around the nerf football, frisbee, walking to the point, and going for ice-cream. The girls even went to the late night show @ the Park shack! More Photos
Poets' Cove/Montague LPS05/07/10
Our squadron cruisemasters served up another great cruise offering; a week long trip beginning at Roche Harbour, WA and ending up at Montague Harbour in the Gulf Islands. Several boats did the whole week, while others (like ourselves) joined in for the days we could. For us, that was the the last half; 2 days at Poets’ and 2 days rafted at Montague.
It was a straight forward trip to Bedwell Harbour (Poets&rsquo, however it was the first time we’ve ever checked in through Cdn Customs (phone in via NEXUS) and there actually be officers present. They did not actually beckon us in (but I could see them in the Customs building. To be safe, I did land and report up, but they told me that was un-neccesary, so off we went to our slip assignment.
We’ve heard about Poets’ (even cleared Customs here before), but never actually stayed at the marina before. Nicely appointed, and all the creature comforts one needs (and more!). Being the (early part of) the Canada Day long weekend, there were a few of the to be expected loud boats; including one suncruiser equipped with it’s own dancers’ pole! Too bad the dancer was carrying too much ballast for the pole.
There were 4 boats that continued on up to Montague for the last leg. It was very calm, so once again -under power- we were the first to arrive. Our Squadron’s usual rafting area was avail., so we took a nearby pin and waited for the float-illa to arrive. As they arrived and Jim set anchor for us all to raft to, Elsa and I rowed in behind him to run the stern line up around a big old fir tree. By the time we got back to BoB, the others were already tied along side Jim’s boat and we were able to come over and tie on the end.
After the girls were ‘caught’ with a poor securing of the dinghy bow line on a previous trip ashore, Jim thought it would be a great idea to ‘float’ t/t BoB about 20’ off shore while the girls were off exploring yet again. As we waited and watched, I’m glad we were out of earshot because if the language the kids were using was anything like their hand gestures to each other....... After Jim ‘came to their rescue’ he made the mistake of fessing up to the prank. I think he’ll have to watch his back for a while. More Photos
Basically it was just another great weekend of relaxing; throwing around the nerf football, frisbee, walking to the point, and going for ice-cream. The girls even went to the late night show @ the Park shack! More Photos
Poets' Cove/Montague LPS05/07/10
Our squadron cruisemasters served up another great cruise offering; a week long trip beginning at Roche Harbour, WA and ending up at Montague Harbour in the Gulf Islands. Several boats did the whole week, while others (like ourselves) joined in for the days we could. For us, that was the the last half; 2 days at Poets’ and 2 days rafted at Montague.
It was a straight forward trip to Bedwell Harbour (Poets&rsquo, however it was the first time we’ve ever checked in through Cdn Customs (phone in via NEXUS) and there actually be officers present. They did not actually beckon us in (but I could see them in the Customs building. To be safe, I did land and report up, but they told me that was un-neccesary, so off we went to our slip assignment.
We’ve heard about Poets’ (even cleared Customs here before), but never actually stayed at the marina before. Nicely appointed, and all the creature comforts one needs (and more!). Being the (early part of) the Canada Day long weekend, there were a few of the to be expected loud boats; including one suncruiser equipped with it’s own dancers’ pole! Too bad the dancer was carrying too much ballast for the pole.
There were 4 boats that continued on up to Montague for the last leg. It was very calm, so once again -under power- we were the first to arrive. Our Squadron’s usual rafting area was avail., so we took a nearby pin and waited for the float-illa to arrive. As they arrived and Jim set anchor for us all to raft to, Elsa and I rowed in behind him to run the stern line up around a big old fir tree. By the time we got back to BoB, the others were already tied along side Jim’s boat and we were able to come over and tie on the end.
After the girls were ‘caught’ with a poor securing of the dinghy bow line on a previous trip ashore, Jim thought it would be a great idea to ‘float’ t/t BoB about 20’ off shore while the girls were off exploring yet again. As we waited and watched, I’m glad we were out of earshot because if the language the kids were using was anything like their hand gestures to each other....... After Jim ‘came to their rescue’ he made the mistake of fessing up to the prank. I think he’ll have to watch his back for a while. More Photos