Hull Island - A New Frontier

This is why all the computer on-line booking BS sucks.  Heidi checked on-line for the Hull standard/basic plan stay at the Haida-Way Motor Inn Hotel only to find it was fully booked. (later proven to be dis-information)  Wait what? No concrete wall rooms and traditional breakfast?   Haida-Way special room Instead, for the first time we stayed the night at The Dalewood Inn.  It was really clean, comfortable and even closer to the harbor and the Alert Bay ferry dock.  We had a good dinner in their restaurant, went for a brief walk around town in the light rain, then off to bed (editor's note: photo of Jon not accepted).   Morning weather conditions were light winds and rain coming in from the West.  Not much to worry about, but just in case we drove along the water out of Port McNeill to get a better look at Johnstone Straits.  Things didn't look too bad, no real whitecaps or swells.  Loading 450 lbs of metal roof onto BRNR We loaded ...

April 22nd - 25th, 2022 This year we arrived from the east.   Leaving Whistler/Blackcomb after a two week ski trip including one week with Audrey and Catherine, Heidi and I took the ferry from Lions Bay to Nanaimo.  Lions Bay is an hour south of Whistler and on our way home.  With no reservation, we arrived about 30 minutes ahead of next departure and given our past ferry experiences it was like a miracle when we drove right on.   After spending the night in Campbell River we drove north an hour and a half to meet Linda Buttle at the Eve River private dock.  Linda had agreed to shuttle us to and from Hull Island at a reasonable cost.  The time and effort we saved by avoiding the drive to Port Mcneill, getting The BRNR in the water, loaded then driving 45 miles each way to and from Hull Island made the Buttle Shuttle trip a huge blessing.  So much more relaxing to have someone else drive their boat.   Smooth riding aboard "Shit Happe...