{"id":3418,"date":"2018-10-06T00:48:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2018-10-06T00:48:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:48:34","slug":"garden-bay-outstation-and-the-harmony-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=3418","title":{"rendered":"Garden Bay Outstation and the Harmony Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Alexandra Island, we motor sailed to Seattle Yacht Club Outstation at Garden Bay.\u00a0 We had a green box get together after the Skipper&#8217;s Meetings, which was so nice, a club house with hot showers and a great place to mingle and meet other cruisers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3420\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030679.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3420\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030679.jpg 480w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030679-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden Island, Seattle Yacht Club Outstation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, we headed to the Harmony Islands en route to Princess Louisa Inlet. These islands are masses of granite, with forest going up from the waterline.\u00a0 Anchoring was a considered exercise because the water is so deep here. Canadian yachting said nearby Hotham Sound was 2,200 ft deep. A glacier had etched the islands out of granite mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Once anchored, everyone (except the photographer) went for a swim and there were a few squeals at the 17 C degree water.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3422\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030726.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3422\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030726.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030726.jpg 480w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030726-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cold, but all smiles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The skippers meeting was a cosy get-together with all hands, on the Starship- Malaika raft up, to discuss the next days journey up to Princess Louisa inlet and strategies for crossing the rapids and enjoying the wine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3423\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030738.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3423\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030738.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030738.jpg 480w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1030738-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strategic Discussions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seals kept their distance but continued to fish and as the sun lowered on the horizon, we went back to Enchanted to enjoy the sunset.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3424\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1090923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3424\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1090923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1090923.jpg 480w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/P1090923-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harmony Islands, BC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alexandra Island, we motor sailed to Seattle Yacht Club Outstation at Garden Bay.\u00a0 We had a green box get together after the Skipper&#8217;s Meetings, which was so nice, a club house with hot showers and a great place to mingle and meet other cruisers. On Thursday, we headed to the Harmony Islands en route &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=3418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Bay Outstation and the Harmony Islands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,169],"tags":[19,168],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-british-columbia","tag-islands","tag-outstations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-T8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}