Salish Sea Pilot

06/19/2026

Thank you Tracy, for hosting us at your dock at Brentwood Bay Resort and Spa and Marina. We so enjoyed our seaside chat focussing on cruising the Sunshine Coast as part of your Voyage Makers Dockside seminar series.
The service, the pool, hot tub and wonderful ambience make it a very special marina.

06/09/2026

06/07/2026

Quartz Bay is off the radar

Humpback whales dive under Silom not far from Quartz Bay. Each time we return to Quartz Bay, on Cortes Island, we expect to find the 36-hectare (88-acre) property that wraps around much of the bay has been sold to a developer with plans to build a garishly extravagant resort. And each time we do return, and find it has yet to be sold, we happily drop a pick in the idyllic western cove and tackle a to-do from our boat list or tuck into a mindless whodunnit, relieved that a developer has not yet purchased this bit of paradise....

Humpback whales dive under Silom not far from Quartz Bay. ach time we return to Quartz Bay, on Cortes Island, we expect to find the 36-hectare (88-acre) property that wraps around much of the bay h…

06/07/2026

Off-season in Smuggler Cove

The view out over Georgia Strait from a trail within Smuggler Cove Provincial Park. Sitting in Smuggler Cove, basking in the otherworldly stillness of the early season, I went online to see what we had written about it in a previous blog. Surely we had glorified it, gone completely over the top. We had mentioned the cove in several articles, but I was surprised to find there was no previous blog focusing on this popular spot that we have returned to again and again over the years....

The view out over Georgia Strait from a trail within Smuggler Cove Provincial Park. itting in Smuggler Cove, basking in the otherworldly stillness of the early season, I went online to see what we …

06/03/2026

Sheet Pan Salmon

A single baking sheet is where Sheet Pan Salmon is created. Some salmon dishes create a pile of dirty dishes and require a long list of ingredients. This one, however, is simple, a single pan and whatever whim catches your creative fancy. Sailors know the value of a meal cooked in a single pan: easy preparation and keeping propane or electricity use to a minimum....

A single baking sheet is where Sheet Pan Salmon is created. ome salmon dishes create a pile of dirty dishes and require a long list of ingredients. This one, however, is simple, a single pan and wh…

05/27/2026

Our sea through others’ eyes

Sometimes we forget that our coast, on the Salish Sea and beyond, provides some of the most captivating, most alive and most beautiful cruising on earth....

Sometimes we forget that our coast, on the Salish Sea and beyond, provides some of the most captivating, most alive and most beautiful cruising on earth.

05/20/2026

So lucky to have such contrasting shores to cruise in the Salish Sea. Saysutchen Island and False Creek.

05/10/2026

My happy place on the boat!

05/09/2026

Cruising in the off season means uncrowded popular anchorages.