Join us with the Voyage Makers
onsidering a cruise down the West Coast of Vancouver Island? Join Jim and me on June 18 at Port Sidney Marina from 4-6pm for a presentation on our favourite places to visit on the...
Author: Lynne Picard
Hotspots on the Sunshine Coast
The Sunshine Coast is more than just a pitstop on the way north to Desolation Sound and beyond, with many excellent anchorages and inlets where you can spend weeks exploring.
Ghosts of Yorke Island
Visitors to the island’s former wartime outpost on Johnstone Strait can imagine what life was like there for young, homesick recruits.
Silom’s Buttermilk Biscuits
ne of the highlights for our grandchildren aboard Silom is our traditional breakfast of homemade hot chocolate with fresh hot biscuits slathered in homemade blackberry jelly. Even watching whales seems to lose its novelty after a...
Magical homemade ricotta
hile cruising Borneo, Pierre, a friend who I had worked with in Bangkok sent me a recipe for homemade cheese after reading my Facebook post complaining about the lack of cheese in shops. Experimenting...
Top spots in the Gulf Islands
There are so many wonderful anchorages and marinas in the Gulf Islands and it might to a fool’s errand to trim them down to a short list of favourites, but here goes…
Boatie Buns
othing says summer like hotdogs on the barbecue. And nothing turns a fine hotdog into a gourmet delight like a fresh, soft, light hotdog bun. When I went looking for hotdog buns recently in...
Stuff happens in Foggy Bay, AK
Silom sits on anchor in Foggy Bay while the crew sleeps below deck, unaware of the spectacular show in the night sky overhead.
Broughton anchorages, Part Two
The many anchorages off Queen Charlotte Strait, just outside the Broughton Archipelago Marine Provincial Park, are awaiting the explorer in you.
Broughton anchorages, Part One
Given that there are scores of lovely, protected anchorages in the Broughton Archipelago, creating a list of a dozen favourites is an impossible task… but we will give it a shot anyway.
