July 24th – 25th
Friday harbor to Poet’s cove resort and marina in bedwell harbor South Pender island. Stayed at dock
Customs check in was easy, a phone call was all that was needed. We did see that another boat was searched and too much alcohol was found so they had to pay some fines.
That afternoon I had found a trail to a Greenburg lake and we walked with dogs. We took the north side of lake which was rocky and steep at times. Per map it looked like we could connect to Gowland point road and then go to brooks point regional park to get an ocean overlook (and then circle back on the road).
Hike through woods was ok, saw the lake then seemed to be on old logging road which dumped us on Gowland point at the base of someone’s driveway. We walked to brooks point to have nice view of boundary pass and a large group of Orca’s (divided into three smaller groups) came by close to shore. So very cool!!! Over a period of 15-20 minutes three groups went by followed by a dozen whale watching boats.
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Got back to Poet’s cover resort and had cocktails at the bar, dogs swam and then got rinsed and then we made a lovely crab cake dinner with our crabs (with couscous w/peas and salad sides).
Stayed two nights on Pender. July 25th we took Pender Island Cab with dogs to the Mount Norman Trail head. Walked up to the overlook then continued down spine of island through woods to ultimately land on Canal road then walked about 1.5 miles on Canal and Spalding to get back to Poet’s cover.
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Had cocktail and snack at cove bar/café, swam dogs and then back to the boat. Deployed dinghy while in slip (not a good idea). Pulled boat forward then launched off of stern..boom not long enough but we got it done.
Dinghied up the bay, through the Pender canal (between north and south islands) to Port Browning. UP the hill to the only market (Tru value food, good grocery) on the Pender’s for lots of provisions then hauled to dinghy and back to boat! Had late dinner after shopping excursion…burgers (vegan and beef) and a garbanzo bean salad.
