Captain Julia (with help from the roving crew of Hello World) graciously took charge of unloading Pisces from YachtPath in Victoria, allowing me to stay an extra few days in SF to race onboard the Express 27 Peaches in the 2010 SF NOOD regatta (4th place). All was well with Pisces from her transit, in fact I ended up with more scrapes and bruises from the weekend of racing than she did on her 10 day trip North.


We spent a few days at the municipal marina in Victoria, right in front of the Empress Hotel and Parliamentary building, until we were more or less kicked out (in a very friendly Canadian way) because the docks were all full to capacity for Canada Day. We had a pretty straightforward motor-boat trip up to Bedwell Harbour in the Gulf Islands, with a bit of a reminder on why we need to pay attention to currents up here.


We spent several days at Bedwell Harbour, hiking and exploring in the dinghy, it's absolutely beautiful up here, and the lush forest is a nice change and counterpoint from the desert of Mexico. Also Canada apparently still has bald eagles, one of which we saw while we were enjoying a pint of local microbrew.


We would have loved to stay in the Gulf Islands for months, but we are trying to get back to Seattle within a week, so we decided to head into the San Juan Islands rather than further North. We had a great sail, got checked through U.S. Customs ("How do you know Julia?" "She's my wife." long pause "Oh."), and are now anchored at Friday Harbor.