After we left the Shearwater Resort yesterday Team Thankful stopped by the unique community of Lizzie Cove a few miles away. Two families have created a half acre floating oasis that is anchored in that protected land locked inlet.
Made up of approximately thirty individual floating segments, the self sufficient enclave uses catchment water for drinking, a generator for power, and wood for heating. They have a huge outdoor garden and greenhouse that generates all of the fresh fruit and vegetables they need. Fish comes from the ocean waters nearby. They have welding, machine, and wood shops, cut and mill their own lumber, and even have a gift shop where they sell the products they make to visitors.
Rene, one of the residents, was there to greet us at the log boom set up for visiting yachts when we arrived. She gave us a tour of their facilities and opened the gift shop for us so Vicki could buy a little something for the grandkids.
The floats upon which all of this sits is a mish-mash of old concrete docks and log booms tied together with cables and chains. It was fascinating to see.
After departing Lizzie Cove, we powered south to Home Bay where we spent the night. At the end of the bay we could see the wreck of what looked like a houseboat. Perhaps that's why the bay was so named? This morning at low tide part of an additional wreck was exposed. This one was huge, perhaps 150 feet long. Matt thought it looked like a ferry boat. How and why did it end its life in tiny protected Home Bay?
We picked Home Bay to overnight because it was a good staging point for today's assault on Queen Charlotte Sound. Apparently this place can get pretty nasty even in normally benign conditions during an ebb tide. Matt has timed it so we are crossing during a flood, and the weather is near perfect. It is glassy out here now but the fog is starting to roll in. A 250 foot BC ferry just startled us when it punched out of the fog three quarters of a mile ahead of Thankful. Time to turn on the radar.
We should be around Cape Caution at 11AM where we enter Queen Charlotte Strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
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