Home again

We made it home....friends Janet & Mark and Jim & Virginia, on board Rosie, came out to escort us home the last two hours of the trip. It was fun being greeted with horns and waves! And, as Virginia shouted to me, "You cheated death yet again!" Always a good thing.

After leaving Nanaimo we headed through Dodd Narrows and into Montague Harbor. We counted 110 boats in the harbor at anchor - we didn't count the boats at the marina or the ones on the provincial park mooring buoys. Good thing Montague is huge, eh? We had warm weather - easily in the 80's - and a really calm night. Then we had to go to Roche Harbor to go through US Customs. I really, really dislike Roche Harbor (unless I'm going to the marina, of course). It's always windy, there are always a TON of boats in there, and the customs dock is, like, 80 feet long - with at least 4 60' boats waiting to go through customs. And, of course, since it's customs, no one except the captain can get off the boat. Usually there's someone to grab a line for you, but it does mean Bob gets to jump off the boat while we're still a couple feet from the dock. (Although, I've gotta say, I can bring that stern in pretty darn close.)

We made it through customs and went over to Shaw Island to anchor for the night. And here's another reason we like boating in Northwest waters - we see things like this, from time to time. Isn't she lovely?


So, now we're home, I'm done blogging for another few months or so, or at least until the next trip......

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