August 20th-21st
Trip Length 8 nm
Our second stop in Desolution Sound Marine Provencial Park is Tenedos Bay where there is a hike to freshwater Unwin Lake where many people swim in the warm water of the lake. Tenedos Bay was the start of our problem’s with smoke from the BC fires that plagued our trip for the next 3-4 weeks. This is when we started looking at the BC Smoke Forecast web page with 24 simulations of smoke coverage so that we could start planning our next location to move around the smoke.
http://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/BSC00CA04/current/
We ended up anchoring out along the north east side of the bay in about 40 ft of water. Our first try at anchoring when backing down we could could feel our chain twitching as our Rocna 110 anchor dragged on rock, on the second try a little further north we did get a good set.
Tenedos Bay Entrance, gettin smokey!
Tenedos Bay Dinghy Landing Unwin Lake Hike
The trail starts at the dinghy landing and we took a trail offshoot to the left of the main trail to let the dog’s run in the stream coming down from the lake.
Unwin Lake Trail Sign 
Unwin Lake Trail Start 
Unwin Lake Trail Stream 
Unwin Lake Rock For Swimming
Once at the lake we took a short hike on a trail to the right side of the lake but it petered out pretty quickly and got swampy so we ended up turning back after a few hundred yards.
Unwin Lake Trail Right Side Of Lake