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These posts are usually short and limited to the previous day’s events. A nice way to keep the family up to date on our whereabouts.

Currently anchored between Cabbage and Tumbo islands, a marine park in British Columbia. I think we are doing a best of tour of anchorages from past cruises and this location is one of them. Andrew was here with us on the Cal 34 when he was a teenager and so it holds warm memories for us. Plus it has beautiful geology and interesting rocks for Melissa to fondle

But no cabbages. I have not found out why it came to be so named. There is a nice small beach and some woods but the rest of the island is sandstone and reefy outcroppings that disappear at high water. Tumbo islands is sort of connected to Cabbage by one of those reefs and it is larger. There used to be a mink farm on the island and coal was mined there. A few old houses and sheds are falling down on the island but mostly it is marsh, Garry oak and large Madronas. Deer seem to run the place now and tolerate the occasional human yahoo bumbling around on their little slice of heaven.

Melissa and I visited Tumbo today on an ill fated dinghy ride. Shortly after we got there it started a proper rain. We are not much phased by sprinkles or a brief shower but we were soaked in short order and decided to slosh back to the mothership. Melissa brought supplies to make Chai tea; the perfect antidote for rain chilled mariners. I fired up the diesel to make hot water for a shower and to charge the batteries. I have a small clothes line in the engine room that I can deploy to dry clothes in such situations. Everything on a boat should have more than one purpose and apparently our engine has four; move the boat, charge the batteries, make hot water and dry clothes.

This photo is from our trip to the other end of Tumbo. Melissa is thinking “So many rocks, so little time”.