We’re been hanging here at Powell River getting our fill of internet, laundry, showers and multiple grocery/liquor stores before leaving tomorrow for Desolation Sound. Hasn’t been too hard to stay since it’s rained on and off for the last three days. Tomorrow is supposed to be pretty nice, so onward and northward we go. By tomorrow night if all goes well we should be in Desolation Sound. As the name suggests, we may well be out of touch again for a while. Please bear with us. We’ll post as soon as we have some sort of internets.
In the mean time, here’s a short pictograph of what we’ve been up to.
Tucked in behind the breakwater at Westview Harbor, Powell River. Lots of fishing boats this time of year, but the harbor is very accommodating and there are lots of stores within walking distance at which to provision.
Powell River is almost the end of the 101. It stops just 10 miles or so north at Lund. From here, it goes all the way to Chile, South America. So...we decided we would walk a little bit of it up to old town, Powell River!
After the 4 mile hike, lunch. Poutine. Very French Canadian. French fries, "stuff" (in this case mushrooms and cheese) with gravy. Sounds, um, well...I dunno, but it's actually pretty good. But very filling!
We went for an authentic evening at the Canadian Legion Hall to see Neil Diamond. OK, it was really "Nearly Neil", but he was really good and it was an authentic cultural experience (of the very good kind). And we went with our new cruising friends Beth and Bill from Hakoom.
Nearly Neil.
Ann the Groupie with Nearly Neil. This was actually a really good concert from a very talented musician.
Amazing. Here you are in the middle of nowhere and who shows up? Neil Diamond for crying out loud! How is that even possible!? And you all sang Sweet Caroline far into the night…
Next stop Elvis.
When you said you decided to walk a little bit on 101 I figured Ann was going to drag you down to Chile. 🙂
Adventure on, adventure on sailors……