Jedediah Island To Smugglers Cove

September 2 nd to 4 th 2018

Trip Length 9 nm

Very short trip from Jedediah to Smugglers Cove anchorage we arrived around 11 am.  

Smugglers Cove is a small all-weather anchorage on the south side of Sechelt Peninsula. Their is access to it by land where you can hike in 4 km from a parking lot off Hwy 101.  

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The entrance is narrow and we ended up stern tying on the north shore at the first location along the bank that had a stern tie chain bolted to the rocks.  Stern tie chains are located in the first cove we anchored in along all side of the small cove.  Further in past south of France Inlet are even more anchoring spots available.  The walls are steep so you can stern tie up very close to the shore.  We did have a good south west wind pick up that came in over Capri Isle over night so did go ahead and run a second shoreline to back up the 3/8″ poly line.  We are now upgrading to 600′ of 5/8″ poly for next year to sleep better in high winds.  
The park has some nice hiking trails with views accessed at the sound end of the inner cove via dinghy.

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Water Dog stern tied to shore just inside entrance on north shore.  The stern tie rings go from out location in along the entire edge of the main cove.  Also more rings on the inside coves.

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The first day we went to the dinghy landing on the south side of the inner cove and walked the trail to the right which takes you to the entrance to the cove on the south side.

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The next day we went to the left at the dinghy landing and walked over the board walk out to the road access point for the park.  The trail utilizes a board to walk over a large marshy area which contained multiple beaver dams.

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The beaver dams are hard to spot but each one seems to have a drainage pipe installed by the park to let some water by the dam to provide water further down?  Beaver dam below with irrigation cage/pipe in front of it.

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