Gulf Islands

Last year we headed for Los Angeles and New Mexico for Spring Break. This year, with only four days at our disposal and much less advance planning, we headed for the Gulf Islands. We know Salt Spring Island, and the Tsawwassen Terminal, and have sailed past some of the other islands, but have never really explored. So last weekend, we went to Pender Island.

We headed up fully aware that this time of year we could get any kind of weather. M found a vacation rental on South Pender that would provide us a comfortable place even if it rained all weekend. As it turned out, we got a little rain, a little sun, and a lot of gray. But nothing that prevented us from wandering the island (islands, actually, since there are two Penders, North and South, attached by a short bridge).

I think we found all the restaurants - and ate at all but one. I visited many of the Islands' beaches, some with M and some while she read in the car. We arrived on North Pender in the rain, we watched Saturna alternate from sunshine to mist, we watched the sun set over Mount Maxwell on Salt Spring, and we saw the San Juans under scattered clouds.