Fraser River

Took over 200 photos today. How do you whittle that down to 25 to meet FindPenguins maximum photos per footprint? I called the Steveston Harbour Authority at 8am to find out my fee for staying on their dock last night. The person that answered the phone asked if she could call me right back as she needed to get the information. I went outside to check some stuff, and found a “Report to the office” notice to check in. Apparently one of the Harbour guys made a round at 10pm. The office gal did call me back. C$45, which worked out to around $35US I believe. There is no charge for day usage. Bill and Mike came over to the dock soon after. They walked around town while I continued my breakfast. At 10am I met them at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Museum. Very interesting museum. After we spent some time walking through the museum, reading all the signage and examining all the machinery, one of the docents that I had asked some questions of, came back and offered us an impromptu tour. We took her up on it, and learned quite a bit more. Not really enough room here to share a full report. Just suffice it to say, very cool and interesting! After finishing up our tour there, we walked to the other end of town to see the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site. While the Cannery was more about the work here, the Shipyards was more about the social or living life here. Again a very good museum. But I will admit I enjoyed the Cannery more so. While walking between the two museums, we looked over to the dock that Bill and Mike stayed on last night. The tide last night was only about half a low tide. The day time low tide was a full low tide. The dock was on land. This morning Bill was not able to put his motor all the way down due to the depth. Good thing it was only a partial low tide. And I really felt more comfortable about coming over to the Harbour Authority dock last evening. The side I would have docked on that other dock was more shallow than the side that Mystery Girl and Little Joe rafted on. I have a rather short attention span and finished seeing that last museum before Bill and Mike, so went to find some ice cream. Canada is the only place I’ve had it, “Tiger” flavor. It’s orange with a ribbon of black licorice! Took me three ice cream shops to find one that had it in this town. (And no, I didn’t have ice cream at the first two. Lol) After that I walked back to C-Traveler, made lunch, and waited for Bill and Mike to get back. We departed the dock around 3:30p and continued up a side channel to the Fraser River. Shortly after coming back out on the main River, we found a spot next to some industrial places to anchor for the night. We are about 10 miles east of Seveston.Read more