Boating Trip: Westview, Prideux Haven, and Cortes

 Westview/Powell River is a pretty uneventful place (sorry Westview, but you do have potential!). I finished one sock and started the second.

These socks are in Cascade Heritage Silk (pattern as yet unpublished, but someday!)

 I love socks with easy to memorize patterns and basic ribbing at the top.

 I really REALLY love the texture of these socks. They also have an unusual heel construction to incorporate the texture in the heel (part of why there isn't a pattern yet).

 See? The heel is so SO pretty!

From Westview we went to Prideux Haven- another very popular spot for boaters where we always seem to know a ridiculous amount of people (not that I am complaining! That makes it interesting).

 More kayaking- the one in the back that I am in is foot pedal powered!

 Boat kitchen- yep it is small, but it works better than you would think! I am making flat bread to go with lentils.

 A kindle was the #1 choice for reading on the boat- and had way better (and free!) internet in many places than phones.

From Prideux we went to Cortes...

 ...and family members picked a huge amount of huckleberries. They were everywhere!

 Can you guess what I am knitting here? Hint- it is from a new garter stitch book.

The beaches on Cortes are small and rocky.

...but the side walls are easy enough to climb up (about 30 feet up here!).

And yes, I am knitting socks. Back and forth. But with modifications to the pattern to add the toe in at the same time.

 (See the rest of the boating pictures here)

Princess Louisa Inlet

Princess Louisa is one of the most stunning places in the Pacific NW.  It is a popular place with boaters, despite the utter lack of cell phone or radio reception. It is the location where the pictures were taken for the Louisa Hat knitting pattern were taken.  We stayed here for several days so we could enjoy kayaking along the sheer rock walls- and the dozens of waterfalls.

I of course had my knitting with me!

 This is one of my favorite places to kayak- you can kayak right up to the waterfalls.

 

Chatterbox Falls in the rain....starts off "small"...

 ...getting bigger....

 (this is with only a bit of rain too!)

 All the trees that you can normally see below the falls are covered by water!

 ...but the water goes back down quickly. Since we were here late in the year, you can imagine how big the falls must be in the spring! There are also hundreds instead of just dozens of waterfalls around the edges of the inlet.

 Huge amounts of moss and lichens (good! means the area is healthy!). Also mosquitoes though- and mosquitoes LOVE me.

There is so much mist you can see it wafting towards the boats.

 (See the rest of the boating pictures here)