June 2010: Campbell River to Ladysmith

We decided to start heading south as the weather is still unsettled. There has been one weather warning after another; this means we have one nice day and then 3 to 4 days of wind, clouds, rain and cold!

Red Again.....
Does this look familiar!
We have been experiencing these severe wind warnings constantly
since started our boating on the 1st of May!

The forecast for the next four days showed severe wind warnings from the NW with speeds varying from 10 to 35 knots; so the decision was made for us! We were to work our way south!

Don & Judy

When we were in Comox, Don & Judy invited us to join them at Ford's Cove on Hornby Island! So we cruised 3 hours south and stayed Friday, Saturday & Sunday nights on the Ford's Cove dock! Joining us there were two other couples from the Comox Yacht Club; Marv and Lynn on their 38' Bayliner MV Silver Cloud and Kelly & Brenda on their 46' Maxxum! We need a bigger boat!!!!!

Kozad, Whiteshell along with two other Comox Valley Yacht Club Boats
Ford's Cove, Hornby Island is a great place
and there is a wonderful store here for provisioning

This is a fire hydrant on Hornby Island!

Jan did lots of hiking; my back has been acting up of late and had me resting and not walking anywhere. Drugs are a wonderful thing! We had extreme winds on Saturday night and had to make sure we were securely tied as winds were out of the NW blowing up to 35 knots!

Purple Martin repopulation: the number is the year (2001) and bird family ID

Jan did lots of hiking and this was a campground on Hornby Island

Don and Jan got out for some fishing: unfortunately no Salmon were caught!

This dive boat was moving picnic tables to the break water!

The tables were for the remote control sailboat races!

This sailboat was on the grid with a little bit of growth!

We went for a walk to a pottery shack!

We came across a small herd of goats! Too cute!

We departed Ford's Cove on Monday at 0600 for Nanaimo; we were lucky to hit an ebb tide with a NW wind on our stern. This allowed us to average 6.5 knots and were able to get to Dodd's Narrows at noon for slack current; which kept us steaming south to Ladysmith. This was a long day and we travelled 8 hours and 54 miles! By vehicle is definitely faster.....

SV Trofast
We passed this 30' Willard Horizon without Mast or Rigging
Apparently he got tangled in some marina pilings?

Ladysmith
Craig's first posting in 1974

Ladysmith was Craig's first Detachment when he left RCMP training in 1974

The right half of this small building was the Police Office.
Craig was posted here for 6 months before being transferred to Campbell River.

Ladysmith Maritime Society Community Marina
This was a great stop!

Just off of the dock a sailboat had sunk!
Hazard to Navigation

Kozad docked behind a 1928 tug: MV Leslie Ann, a beautiful vessel!

MV Leslie Ann

MV Leslie Ann


Beautifully Restored