CARLA WILSON / TIMES COLONIST The first steel piling is now fixed into the seabed in Victoria Harbour as construction begins on the $24-million super-yacht marina. “I think people are going to be pleasantly...
annah, a friend on our dock, sent us a link to a radio interview with Jackie Hildering, a humpback whale researcher with the Marine Education and Research Society. The interview was about the society’s...
he Marine Detective, Jackie Hildering, recently had a rare encounter with an endangered Leatherback turtle off the west coast of Vancouver Island. A few days earlier the Department of Fisheries and Oceans vessel she...
Decisions, decisions… Hope Island offers many options to cruisers with a yen to explore southwest Puget Sound. It also the perfect place if you need extra time to ponder where to go next.
Blind Bay’s excellent shelter and anchoring depths at a crossroads in the San Juan Islands make it the perfect place to rendezvous with friends who love the taste of fresh crab.
If you are determined to anchor near Victoria, Quarantine Cove is a fine choice if the westerlies promise to be nasty. It’s also a nice place if you have to do time.
There is decent protection from southeasterly winds in the northeast corner of Halfmoon Bay, but don’t blindly put your safety in the hands of electronic charts as we foolishly did.
Newcastle Island is could never be described as remote, but feels like it is a world away from the nearby City of Nanaimo. Fun and comforted are probably better words of description.
Texada Island has few residents, and fewer visitors, and an undeserved reputation for odd characters. It might have the highest per capital population of artists in the nation.
Francis Point, near Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast, is delicate. Human footsteps act like battering rams on the ecology of this tiny, undeveloped provincial park.
