Vancouver to Saltery Bay
August 25, Monday - What a difference a day makes! It is cool, calm and dry as we leave Mickey's Kit Beach B & B. Our room was lovely, the food tasty, and our host quite helpful. .......But it is time to head north.
Vancouver is the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The statue in the background is the symbol they are using for pins, posters, etc. The Olympics are everywhere already.
The Inukshuk basically means "You are welcome here".
Crossing the Lion's Gate Bridge into North Vancouver.
Looking south along the Sunshine Coast.
At Horshoebay ferry terminal, waiting for the ferry, we met Pascal, Cathy, and their 5 year old daughter Zoe. They are from France. They are using the same guide book that we are and plan to stay at the same campground tonight.
It was noon so we weren't the only ones waiting in line to eat lunch. The ferries often have a very nice cafeteria with reasonable prices.
It was a very beautiful ride to Langdale. There were still enough clouds though that we could not see the snow-capped peaks that you see in the postcards. In fact we never did see them.
Just outside of Gibsons. This stretch had a really nice shoulder and not that much traffic.
Porpoise Bay Campground beach, a great place to write in the journal.
Just south of Sechelt (Sea-shelt), our destination for the day. We had a very nice Italian dinner before heading out to the provincal park and campground that is 2 miles outside of town.
The hiker/biker area. Pascal, Cathy, and Zoe are camped just behind the trees. We had a chance to talk to them quite a bit. They are from the south of France. They have taken a year off from their jobs. They just spent the first month in Quebec. They are biking down to Baja California and then flying to Peru in February to bicycle around South America until they return to France next June. Makes the 40 miles we did today seem pretty small!
August 26, Tuesday - Another beautiful cool morning. We decided to head into town for breakfast so there was a lot of motivation to get packed up and on the road.
Guess not everyone is thrilled about the coming Olympics.
Garden Bay RV Park, a perfect place to stop for today's ice cream.
Waiting for the ferry at Earl's Cove. We also met a couple from New Zealand that had just bicycled off the ferry. They said it was pretty hilly to Powell River and we told them it was pretty hilly to Vancouver........fair trade.
Our typical parking place on the ferries.
These clouds kept getting thicker and thicker until it started raining about halfway across to Saltery Bay. A trucker on the ferry gave us advice about Kent's Beach campground with good showers and laundry, that was about a mile from the ferry terminal. We had planned to go another 20 miles to Powell River today but the drenching rain changed our plans.
There was one cabin left so Pascal and Cathy set up their tent next to it and we shared the roof the rest of the day and evening. It was really nice getting to talk to them some more. They spent a couple of years in Australia so their English is quite good.
The afternoon school lesson for Zoe. They are home schooling her for this year on the road. They have a blog set up so that she can stay in touch with her classmates and friends. We looked at it when we returned home. It's all in French so a bit challenging for us.
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