Barkley Sound 2016
Barkley Sound Day 1 – The Packing
Today we packed, and packed, and packed, and then stored, and stored, and stored all that packed stuff into hidden
Barkley Sound Day 2 – Our Asymmetrical handles more wind than we can…
Well, today we got up around 8am, slowly started to prep, filled the water tank and then got ready to
Barkley Sound Day 3 – Hello Victoria and the Vic-Maui Crews!
Devon woke up early this morning, pulled up the anchor and motored away from Port Townsend on the way out
Barkley Sound Day 4 – A day of rest, sort of…
Well we woke up in Victoria still, made some coffee, and got moving a bit. Last night I noticed one
Barkley Sound Day 5 – The Straits…
Rose early (about 5:30am) and got going. We had to slip out between a few boats since we were “parallel
Barkley Sound Day 6 – The Dinghy Fail
We woke up later than usual, you know, 8:10am, with no real plan for the day. We had some breakfast
Barkley Sound Day 7 – MOB (Mobile overboard) and Sushi for Dinner…
Woke up to a beautiful morning! Got the girls up for breakfast and packed a few items for the fishing
Barkley Sound Day 8 – Dodging the gale in Dodger Channel
At about 8:30am this morning, Devon was already up and Capt’n Pete dinghy’d over with our frozen salmon filets. A
Barkley Sound Day 9 – Marveling at Marble Cove
Today we woke up and decided it was a cleaning day as the boat needed to be organized and cleaned
Updating the blog where Internet barely exists…
I forgot to mention in the Day 10 post that I finally solves some of my challenges with updating the
Barkley Sound Day 10 – Failing to find the nettles at Nettle Island
(Resending via Satellite) The girls got up fairly early today in Marble Cove and we had some breakfast, then Devon
Barkley Sound Day 11 – Warm water swimming in Pipestem Inlet
Only one small photo today due to updating via satellite… Today was a late morning, which is fine, except that
Captain Morgan’s Log – July 11th, 2016
My tummy is hurting. My tummy is hurting. Because I am sea sick. I am seasick because we are going
Captain Morgan’s Log – July 12th, 2016
Day 4 we slept in Barkly sound. Day 5 we slept in Barkly sound. Today we are ixploring Barkly sound.
Captain Morgan’s Log – July 16th, 2016
It is bedtime. Day 10. We are planing to go Kayaking this morning. We just got jrest. We are jurnaling
Barkley Sound Day 12 – Gunkholing and Hiking at Lucky Falls
Only one small photo again today due to updating via satellite… Today we got up to a quick cereal and
Barkley Sound Day 13 – Oh the calamity!
Well today was crazy… We had some scary times, and some stressful times, and some good times. Girls got up
Last Night in Effingham Bay
I thought this picture showed our anchorage pretty well… —- This e-mail was delivered via satellite phone using GMN’s XGate
Barkley Sound Day 14 – Sea Lion WOW at Wouwer Island
Another late morning with cereal and oatmeal, except for Devon who got up pretty early and washed some of the
Barkley Sound Day 15 – “I didn’t sink!”
Wow, today was busy and long… Even though we never left the boat. Morgan had seemed to be getting to
Barkley Sound Day 16 – Clueless in Ucluelet (You-Cloo-Let)
Note about the last post: Since we had workable Internet I looked up the sea creature we saw last night
Making Sure You See What Your Radar Sees…
Mobert is now just about 10 years old and as such the Raymarine electronics that she came with are of the
Barkley Sound Trip Wrap up…
We’re home of course, and the boat came home separately. On the morning of our last day in Barkley Sound,