Rendezvous at Comox

Karen wins the coveted cover photo for today's highly anticipated blog.  This is a river otter at Comox.

This morning, we enjoyed a brief sleep-in, then at 0845 we departed Campbell River for Comox.

Here is a picture of Cambell River as we headed out and down the channel.

Here is the native village of Yaculta, just north of Cape Mudge at the south end of Quadra Island, across the channel from Campbell River.

We passed Cape Mudge again, so I had to take another picture.   It is a lighthouse, after all...

Just gray overcast skies and a bit of rain.

While we saw some large humpbacks in the north portion of the Strait of Georgia, they eluded our cameras.   We did manage to capture some sea lions on buoys though.   This one is marking the shoals off of Cape Lazo.

And this one marks the outer entrance to the narrow and shallow channel across the reef just outside of Comox.   The channel is maybe 50 yards wide and only 10' deep.   On either side of the channel the depths are reported to be 1' to 2'.   I'll take their word for it.

At 1325 we tied-up on the inside of the breakwater and right behind us David and Sandra Ranger tied up Sarita Mist, their Selene 53.  We had met them at the 2023 Selene Rendezvous at Roche Harbor.   We helped them with docklines and welcomed them to Comox.

Karen & I strolled downtown Comox, which is a lovely little town, with every necessary amenity, including a brew pub and a Benino Gelato place.   Of course, we had to sample them both!

Here is a cute storefront that is built using the old hulls of fishing boats.

Tonight, we went out to dinner with Rob & Shiela Parker, some new boat friends we met in Cambell River back in June.   We happy houred on their boat, Gincident (Per the story... their boat is so named because they acquired their boat after an incident involving gin...).

We went out to Martine's Bistro (excellent) where I had the rack of lamb and Karen had the grilled salmon.   To pair, I'd ordered a Chateauneuf du Pape, which was largely a disappointment.  I'm used to CDPs being rather dry and this one was anything but.   Maybe I don't know CDP's very well (which would be true).

We made up for the lackluster wine with otherwise great food and a flourless dark chocolate cake covered in a dark chocolate ganache and enjoyable dinner conversation.

Good thing the marina is downhill from Martine's so I could roll all the way back!