Cruising the Pacific Northwest, San Juan Islands, British Columbia & Alaska: June 19th

We departed Sointula and headed around Donegal Head. "Eagle Wing" Jim and Kathleen's boat is on it's Maiden Voyage into the Broughtons.

We anchored with Eagle Wing rafted to us in Viner Inlet. A badly needed rain storm came in during the night.

"Zorba the Dog" is Kathleen and Jim's Schipperke. It was his Maiden Voyage to shore for a walk when he decided to jump in. Jim's quick reaction plucked him out immediately. He was cold and wet. We considered it his "Baptism"!

In the morning we headed for Echo Bay.

I prepared a fresh Apple and Raspberry pastry with Cinnamon and Splenda.

I had a lot of apples so I also baked a no sugar Apple Pie.

Kathleen and I felt like little girls playing with the scraps of dough. With some Cinnamon and sugar we baked them and were catapulted back to our childhoods.

Louie cleaned and cooked his catch of crab at Echo Bay while we went exploring.

We hiked a rather strenuous trail from Echo Bay to Billy Proctor's Museum. At several points on the wet and slippery trail we had to use ropes to repell up and down embankments. It looks like Billy will have enough wood to get him through the chilly nights.

We passed this log cabin that is being built by a young couple living off the land. They scavenged the logs adrift in the water. They are doing it like in the days of old without modern equipment of any kind. There are so many interesting people here!

We visited "Yvonne Maximchuk" a famous northwest artist, painter, teacher, potter, quilter and author.

She has a divine garden looking over Proctor Bay. It brings visions of Monet's Garden in Giverny.

Her Peonies are magnificent!

We ventured to the Burdwood Island Group and ancient summer village site. You can see the thousands of years of shelling clams, oysters and barnicles in the form of a "Midden". The Kwakwakawakw First Nations have inhabited this area for thousand of years.