Pirates Cove

We left Galiano around 4:00 pm on Sunday, motored up to to De Courcy island, and anchored in a pretty little cove called Pirates Cove.  Although it has a reputation for being crowded in the summer, there was only 1 other boat anchored there.  We had the anchor down in time for a lovely dinner of curry chicken sausage and rice.

A couple of days earlier I was explaining to Emily about the water wearing strange shapes into the rocks.  Her response:  "I know that dad, it's how sea caves are made".  Hmmm.  There were some small sea caves near our boat, so we headed over in the dinghy first thing in the morning to explore these, and look for pirates in the forest.

We went back to Rio Dorado, and Sara, Camille and Emily went ashore to explore, while I sorted out our route to Nanaimo, and readied the boat for departure.  The route to Nanaimo goes through Dodd Narrows, which runs like a river during peak tidal flood and ebb.  We departed as soon as the girls got back in the dinghy, and hit Dodd Narrows nicely at slack tide, for a calm trip through.