Karen and Jim's Excellent Adventure

The stories behind these photos are posted below. But a photo of the Cap'n right after he fell in from the dinghy was just too darned g...

In the middle near the top of Vancouver Island is a lumber mill town deep in a fjord, and that’s where we are. It is by far the friendlies...

We kid you not... this road sign is out on the tip of an island, and it describes perfectly the route through the rocks in the narrow channe...

That stretch of good weather was a record-breaker, and we're pleased to have been in the region for most of it. Not that the winds have...

We're anchored in the cove in Nootka Sound, just a slim neck of land away from the huge Pacific, where three civilizations came together...

Nootka Sound. Beautiful day. Using the coast guard station's net connection. Sent from my iPhone

We are lazing at Tofino. Captions for these photos: The ship's coffeepot, log and charts of the Straits crossing.  The off-watch  gettin...