MV Main Attraction pictured above (top) & MV Bowhaus pictured above (bottom)


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We are friends who share a love of boating~~Doug, Margie, Ginnie, Torben & Chester (our 5 year old Havanese, pictured in Ginnie's lap) on Main Attraction, a 56 foot Navigator, and Margi & Doug on Bowhaus, a 36 foot Grand Banks. From mid-May through mid-August 2016, we are embarking on the longest cruise of our life times. This is the summer of our Grand Alaskan Adventure. We've been planning for months and now we are ready!

Friday, August 12, 2016

CRUISING THE EAST COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND TO NANAIMO


We sat out from Comox on this gorgeous Friday morning and, just a few miles out, we encountered something we'd never experienced before...a cable ferry. We first saw bright green lights on both sides of the channel.  Then they turned red which meant we had to stop and hold as the cables were raised to bring the ferry across the channel.      
       

A cautionary note appeared on the GPS chart 


As we waited, the cable ferry set out on its 8 minute crossing from Buckley Bay on Vancouver island to Denman Island.   

Ferry at mid channel 


Green lights meant the ferry was across, the cables were lowered and it was safe to proceed. 












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