So, you wonder where we will be stopping as we make our way up the Inside Passage. Here is the “draft” itinerary. We keep stressing draft because of that key factor I mentioned before, weather. The Executive Director of the tour figures the itinerary will be final, the second we have completed the trip.
Thankfully, boaters seem to be a very calm, go-with-the-flow kind of crowd. All of our participants are experienced boaters and they know that the weather will dictate the pace of our trip. So, if the weather gods smile upon us, the following are the ports of call we will visit:
Day 1 Poets Cove Resort, Pender Island, BC
Day 2 Cameron Island, Nanaimo, BC
Day 3 Fisherman's Resort & Marina, Pender Harbour, BC
Day 4 Prideaux Haven, Desolation Sound, BC
Day 5 Shoal Bay Lodge, Johnstone Strait, BC
Day 6 Lagoon Cove, Minstrel Island, BC
Day 7 Sullivan Bay, The Broughtons, BC
Day 8 Cross Queen Charlotte Strait to Duncanby Lodge & Marina, Powell River, BC
Day 9 Weather Safety Day or Pruth Bay
Day 10 Shearwater Marine Resort, Denny Island, BC
Day 11 Klemtu, Finlayson Channel, BC
Day 12 Coghlan Anchorage, Promise Island or Bishop Cove, BC
Day 13 Prince Rupert Rowing & Yacht Club, Prince Rupert, BC
Day 14 Brundige Inlet on Dundas Island or Foggy Bay
Day 15 Weather Safety Day
Day 16 Ketchikan, Alaska
Day 17 From Ketchikan, take a charter boat around Behm Canal and the Misty Fjords
Day 18 Meyers Chuck, Alaska
Day 19 Santa Anna Inlet, Alaska
Day 20 Wrangell
Day 21 Wrangell
There is a very nice map of the Inside Passage on Encarta if you are interested in seeing the route. To me, the route looks small on the Encarta map. At home, I have the Inside Passage Route Planning maps from Fine Edge. I actually have two maps, one for the BC portion of the trip, and another for the Alaska portion. One map folds out to about the size of my dinner table. I have to lay them on the floor to see the whole route end-to-end. The Fine Edge maps really give you a feel for the hundreds and hundreds of islands that dot the area all the way up the inside passage.
You can start to understand why ole Captain Vancouver got a little nutty and cranky trying to map the area. I guess it could have been all those pesky islands, or the fact that he started naval service at the age of 15! Heading out to sea for three years of service is something I certainly wouldn’t have been prepared to do at 15.
I’m sure you want to know what we’ll be doing in each location. I’m not going to tell you yet, I don’t want to spoil the surprise. I’ll keep posting about our adventure as it happens. You can rest assured that I’ll share all the planned activities that go sideways, and the unplanned events that pleasantly surprise us.
You can start to understand why ole Captain Vancouver got a little nutty and cranky trying to map the area. I guess it could have been all those pesky islands, or the fact that he started naval service at the age of 15! Heading out to sea for three years of service is something I certainly wouldn’t have been prepared to do at 15.
