• C-TravelerBritish Columbia CoastTraveler
    Following Mystery Girl through a narrow passage.
    Some of the boats anchored in Prideaux Haven.I went as far as the first lookout. Mike and Bill continued at least as far as the first lake.More boats anchored in Melanie CoveWe took the Lake View trailNo name on the lake, but this is the Lake View.Zoomed in on a canoe or kayak down on the lake shore.As much of the hike that I did.Entering Laura Cove, this sea lion had his flipper up. Never seen one hold it like that.Went back to check to see if something wrong. Sea Lion popped up and barked at me.Mike at end of Laura Cove trail, standing at sign at Melanie Cove end!Me at same sign.Hike between Laura and Melanie coves.Inreach track today. Both on boats and hiking.

    Melanie Cove and Laura Cove

    May 11 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 50 °F

    Last couple of days seem like a blur and I’m losing track of where we’ve been. Lol. It’s all beautiful. Still have not caught any more crabs, but yesterday another boater gave Mike a nice bag of prawns that we boiled/steamed this evening for supper. We stopped at Melanie Cove today to do some hiking. We go through Prideaux Haven to enter Melanie Cove, and saw more boats anchored in there than we've probably seen on the entire trip, not including marinas. But Prideaux Haven is a popular spot! After anchoring, we headed over to the trailhead. I only went as far as the Lake lookout on the first hike, while Mike and Bill continued for a couple more hours. Since I was still waiting for the patch glue to fully dry on my Hobie kayak, I caught a ride over to the trail head with Mike. While at the Lake lookout, we could see a canoe or kayak down on the lake shore. Bill and Mike ended up hiking down to it. After getting back to our boats, I inflated my kayak and put it back in the water checking for leaks. All seems good again. We were going to go on another hike, that went over to Laura Cove, but there was a sign at the trail head saying the trail was closed. So we left Melanie Cove and headed over to Laura Cove. Bill was having a hard time getting his anchor to set when we got to Laura Cove, but I was able to set mine, so after stern tying, Bill rafted on me so we could cook the prawns later and share a meal. Once set up, we went over to a trail head here for a hike that was suppose to go by an old settlement and then on to Melanie Cove. We kind of expected a closed sign on it, but there was not one. We ended up coming out at Melanie Cove at the same sign that said the trail was closed! And we never did see the old settlement, but none of the buildings exist anymore anyway.
    We enjoyed the prawns this evening, and Mike and Bill discussed going into Roscoe Cove tomorrow. To enter the inner basin, you go across a drying bar, so you have to go in with more than a low tide, so they were figuring out times to go in and then back out the next day.    Read more