Made it to Campbell River today

We're tied up at Discovery Harbour Marina this afternoon and for the next three nights--phones should be working and we'll have more or less regular Internet through Monday as a result, so if you want to get hold of us, now is probably the time!

We've been out of touch on account of the relatively remote conditions in Desolation Sound. I managed to send the last post to the blog via e-mail on the very slow cellular connection we got in one particular location, but the formatting was all messed up (my apologies--fixed now). I have a couple of posts written from the hinterland there that I wasn't able to put up, so I'll add them to the blog some time this weekend.

We've been having a fine time and the weather has been incredible. It's 78 degrees out now, bright and sunny. It rained perhaps a half hour last night, but other than that it's been gorgeous these past few days, and that's been very fortunate considering the majestic scenery and the fact that May isn't usually so generous, weather-wise. Looks like it is nice in Washington now, too, hope those of you there are enjoying it too.

We're here in one spot so long because Mandy has to catch a flight out on Monday. We definitely wanted to be here by Sunday night, and I gave us two days to get here from Desolation on account of Cape Mudge, which we had to round to get here, has an evil reputation in certain wind and tide conditions... I wanted to keep the option open of backing off and trying later if those were the case when we got there. Happily, they were not and we came right in, nearing 10 knots of speed on the ebbing current up Discovery Passage.

The marina is quite nice and there is an adjacent shopping center where I can stock up before heading out again. The people up here are wonderful and we're looking forward to taking the town in a little bit more tomorrow (although it's an open question how much is going on in a small town on Sunday...).

Anyway, will post more later, just wanted to say hi since we're here.

Oh, and for those of you wondering about the status of our dinghy: it's just fine. We've had it all over rough rocks and oyster shells and all it got was a little muddy. Now if I could just get Mandy to row a little faster...