After a quiet night on the Swinomish Channel in LaConner, Washington, we got a pretty early start and headed north. The Swinomish Channel is a 23-mile shallow, narrow waterway, and the “No Wake Zone” extends its’ entire length, so it took us awhile to get to open water. As the weather channel was still calling for Small Craft Advisories in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, we were pleased to have avoided it and headed directly through the San Juan Islands, stopping only at Deer Harbor to gas up at U.S. fuel prices one last time.
We stopped in Sidney Harbor on Vancouver island to clear Canadian Customs (a snap), then proceeded north to Cowichan Bay where we’re docked for the night at Fisherman’s Wharf, a working fisherman’s marina where we spent one night last year too.
A walk along the Cowichan waterfront looking at galleries, cafes, a Wooden Boat Museum, tiny houseboats and finally the wonderful bakery where we bought a loaf of bread brought a nice end to our afternoon.
Total Travel Time; 5 hours, covering 65 miles.
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