When it time to go......

This morning we watched the sunrise during a quick trip over to Anacortes from Friday Harbor.

Nearly the only boat we crossed paths with was the early morning ferry.

Though it was nice and calm in the morning when we crossed Rosario Strait, there was going to be a Small Craft Advisory after 2 PM and as I write this snugged safely in Cap Sante Marina it is blowing and raining out there like a stink.

We had planned a couple more days in the Gulf Islands but the impending weather put us on the move. After Nanaimo we spent the night in Conover Cove Wallace Island. We spent the day hiking in beautiful weather out to the northern tip.

                                 
 There are few old buildings still there one of which has turned into a shrine for visiting boaters. Driftwood with boat names (and a few other things) have been attached to the whole outside of the decrepit building.                       

               
             Even the inside was filled, bordering on the bizarre.       
                                         

                                        

 Conover Cove is small and shallow and typically this time of year as few visitors except on the weekend for day trips. We did have this beauty for a dockmate though.

Even though much of there area here has seen a lack of rain recently, one can just look at the mossy hillsides (which are solid rock underneath) to see the kind of climate.

There were numerous picnic setting provided.

After Conover we had planned a stay at Poet's Cove in Bedwell Harbor but weather reports were coming in that did not look good for crossing Haro Strait the next day so in the morning we went all the way to Friday Harbor and checked back into the US. 

That has been the great thing about "Wild Blue", when it was time to "git" you cover some miles quickly.