Tribune Bay To Jedediah Island Provincial Park

Trip Length 17 nm

Yet another short un-stressfull trip in the PNW to Jedediah Porvincial Park. 

Very cool spot which was purchased from Al and Mary Palmer, owners of the island since 1949. Their house is still there along with the field and orchard on the inland side of the house.  The estate of the late Daniel Culver committed $1.1 million to Jedediah’s preservation which the Palmers sold under market price.  The Island also has some to old-growth stands of Douglas fir and arbutus along the trails which is way cool.

We went in and checked out Deep Bay Anchorage which looked to small for us and then the small cove directly underneath it so the south.  The small cove, yellow orange dot below, had a couple boats in so we needed to find another spot to anchor.  We then went back around  north of the Island to Cod Fish Cove.   Turned out to be a great choice.

Once we got to Cod Fish Cove we at first stern anchored up to the shore behind us but the wind from the North was kicking up making us worried the stern line might part so we decided to take it in.  Learned a lesson on long stern lines in that if there is a single wrap in the line when you start that it may wrap itself around itself many many times as try to pull the loop back in to the boat.  Had to go in to shore and unravel 300′ of line that had wrapped 40-50 turns upon itself, no fun.  

At the north end of Cod Fish Cove is a very nice fairly steep rocky bank dinghy beach.  No mud no fuss.

The island has some nice hiking trails to explore.  As shown below the first day we took the trail from Cod Fish Bay, on the lower right, to the cross hatched area where the fields and orchard are.  Al and Mary Palmers old house is down on the south east corner of the orchard and field to the right once you enter the field area.

On the path over from Cod Fish Cove you pass a drift wood beach.

Pretty cool these guy’s lived here for many years in a very pretty but isolated place.  I can understand why you would want to do it!

At the dinghy landing in Cod Fish Cove you will notice a small trail going off to the left which will lead you to a steep but very nice trail up to Gibraltar Peak.

The next day we took the hike across the field to take a look at Long and Deep Bay’s toward the north side of the island.

Comox Harbour To Tribune Bay (Hornby Island)
Jedediah Island To Smugglers Cove

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