Saturday: Ganges, Saltspring Island to Telegraph Harbour, Thetis Island

We awoke to another beautiful, sunny day. Reports were that yesterday was 90 degrees and we would be topping that in the days to come. This is definitely better than the first day of our trip, where we had to keep adding layers of clothing to keep warm!

With a plentiful supply of water because of being tied up to a dock, we were able to take nice, long showers for the first time in a while. We were due. We’re normally pretty stingy with water but we obey different rules when all we have to do to get more is run a hose.

With our fresh, clean outlook we went into town to explore the Saturday market. It’s a mixture of farmers and artisans and interesting to wander around. Here are a couple of pictures to give you a flavor:

For lunch we tried a new Mexican café, right at the head of our dock, and it was very good. Afterwards we went back to the dock, topped off the water tank one last time, and headed for our next destination: Telegraph Harbour on Thetis Island. Our friends Loren and Erin have a 52 foot wooden Chris Craft, and would be there attending a Chris Craft rendezvous.

We arrived after a three hour cruise, happily nothing like the USS Minnow’s three hour cruise on “Gilligan’s Island,” dropped anchor and went ashore. There were a number of Chris Crafts, some old and wooden and some newer and fiberglass, but all nice. We had a good time trading sea stories with Loren and Erin and her parents, who are traveling with them. We left after a while so that they could attend their group’s festivities and we could go back for a barbeque.

This bay is actually formed where two islands come together, and there is a very narrow cut between them. At least it’s narrow at low tide. Here are a couple of pictures to show you what a difference a tidal change makes: The cut at high tide, and the same view at low tide.

This trip, the water completely dried out during low tide, something we'd never seen before. It was a LOW tide.