Monday, August 4, 2008

Westview - Powell River to Secret Cove - July 24th, 2008



We left Westview and headed south towards Secret Cove. Secret Cove is just north of Smugglers Cove Provincial Park where we had stayed on the way north. Secret Cove has a great marina and although expensive, it was nicer than Roche Harbor. The docks are nicer and they have a great store and restaurant that are both very good quality and at half the cost of the store prices and restaurant in Roche. The weather was perfect and we had a port tie.. We were next to a couple who were laying out the design for their retirement home on the dock. They were in the process of planning and having the land surveyed. We had a great dinner and the restaurant had a very good wine list. We checked out the store and bought a few additional supplies. Secret Cove is one of three marinas in the harbor and it is very pretty, surrounded by tress and feels removed from a high paced marina. At the restaurant we met a wonderful couple, Brock and Mary who travel in their sailboat Manuhuka. As happens with all boaters we meet, we exchange great places to see and share boating adventures or misadventures. It will be nice if we run into Brock and Mary again sometime. They had kept their boat at Point Roberts for some years before moving it to Canada.

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