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.
The many anchorages off Queen Charlotte Strait, just outside the Broughton Archipelago Marine Provincial Park, are awaiting the explorer in you.
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.
There are so many wonderful anchorages in the Desolation Sound area and here are a few of the favourites.
Getting to Pruth Bay, home to the Hakai Institute, is a fine reason to round Cape Caution from the south even if you have no intention to go any farther.
There’s almost nothing about Princess Louisa Inlet that hasn’t already been said, and said so poetically, but maybe we can offer a couple tips to those who are first-timers without flowery prose.
For so long we lived in ignorance of the adventures found ashore on Cypress Island. It took going into the cruising guide business for the fog to finally lift.
We had been deliciously marinating in the Eucott Bay hot springs pool at the end of a long day, offering ourselves up as hors d’oeuvres to a wandering grizzly.
Haida Gwaii’s beautiful anchorage at Bag Harbour and the pulsating life within Dolomite Narrows are enticing. You just have to decide how to get there.
Four anchorages close to Cape Caution provide excellent protection for boaters awaiting settled conditions to round the notorious waters off the cape.
Whether it was soaring fuel prices, frosty temperatures or endless rain, this was a year to remember for many cruising the north BC coast. We might wish to forget our reaction when we came face to face with a grizzly.
Due to a forgetful editor, this final chapter in a three-part series about cruising Puget Sound got filed away. Now here it is, finally, with information about exploring the North Sound.