Pics From My trip from Vancouver to Lund & Campbell River

[Chasin' Dreams]

I did a bit of a spur of the moment trip from Vancouber Harbor to Lund and Campbell River for 4 days.

Can only do forum posts with a max of 20 pics at a time so I'll have to post this in a couple posts.

launching at Vancouver

traveled through the night. this is looking up malaspina strait between texada island and the coast

dropped the prawn traps out in malaspina strait to let them soak overnight

traveling by radar and chart at night got me up to blind bay, powell river to moor overnight

woke up in the morning to these beautiful surroundings

wife spoiled me with a keurig coffee maker for the boat. makes making a single cup on the fly so much quicker and easier

heading out to pull the prawn traps in the morning

some of the traps had octopus in them so no prawn love in those ones but others had a lot of beauty jumbo sized prawns in them

decided against sticking around there to salmon fish cause the algae was horrible

headed up to Lund where I got some fuel, did some sight seeing and had an ice cold beer before heading out to put the prawn and crab traps out

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[Chasin' Dreams]

Continued....

went by savory island to check out the beautiful beaches while out dropping the traps for an overnight soak and did a bit of trolling near the top of savory where i got a keeper ling for the cooler.

then back to lund for an oyster burger supper at the pub and got a room in the lund hotel on the water for the night. great food and great people there!

general store in the lund hotel that has pretty much everything you need including post office, payphone, liquor etc.

breakfast in the morning at the lund hotel restaurant. great food!

game of chess on the water lol

off to pull the traps. more octopus here too, but also some very plentiful and large prawns

then I ventured further up malaspina towards desolation sound for some more sight seeing. weather and water conditions continued to be amazing

entering desolation sound. breathtaking area

after sight seeing through desolation sound for a couple hours I decided to cross the strait over to the campbell river hump by cape mudge for a little bit of trolling then up discovery passage for a little bit more sight seeing. i got numerous lings there during a short period of time trolling deep and bottom bouncing the cannon ball. but no springs. i was very happy with my couple keeper lings for the trip though cause I hadn't had a chance to target them yet this year. They are one of our families favorite sea foods. picked up some keeper dungie's too but a lot of small ones in the spots i was crabbing at and a couple times my traps were emptied of bait (salmon heads and bellies eatin/picked clean) that were dropped by savory but no crabs in the traps...they were raided i do believe.

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[Chasin' Dreams]

Continued...

back to lund to moor at the dock for the night. supper and some cold beer on the boat then bed time. beautiful sunset but I could tell the weather front was coming in.

Got up in the morning, had breakfast at the lund hotel then headed out to pull the traps and head home. Wind was blowing 20 knots in the strait on the boat ride home. Made it for a longer trip coming back and I forgot to check the tides for the pull out at vancouver harbor. brain fart. it so happened that i hit one of the lowest tides. had to tie my boat up to the end of the wharf as there was no water on the ramp section and i had to put the truck in 4 wheel in the sand to get to my boat but it all worked out well and i managed to get her out ok.
an awesome trip and can't wait to get back to lund/desolation sound area with my family for more sight seeing and kayaking this summer.

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[Admin]

Great post and pix CD. Thanks for that contribution.

 

[the fog ducker]

Wicked , very envious , beautiful boat CD, sweet trip and pics ,
workin my butt off to be able to retire one day and live your life , one more tub before i hang the rods up ,
we cant wait to travel the whole coast one day , make a few summers out of it , mexico in the winters

thanks !!

fd

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

Great post and pix CD. Thanks for that contribution.

No problem. My pleasure!

Wicked , very envious , beautiful boat CD, sweet trip and pics ,
workin my butt off to be able to retire one day and live your life , one more tub before i hang the rods up ,
we cant wait to travel the whole coast one day , make a few summers out of it , mexico in the winters

thanks !!

fd

Thank you FD. We live in such a beautiful place. It's so breathtaking and so much more to see.

 

[Thunder21]

Awesome. Being able to randomly leave on 4 day trips because you were "bored" is pretty much living the dream in my eyes.

 

[the fog ducker]

what was the fuel burn CD ?

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

Awesome. Being able to randomly leave on 4 day trips because you were "bored" is pretty much living the dream in my eyes.

Well I was definitely a bit bored but one other thing I didn't mention is that my eldest teen daughter was being very hard to deal with for a couple days straight lol so it also was a kind of temporary escape.

 

[Ringo]

Great pics and story. Thanks for sharing.

 

[tains]

Awesome trip and pics. Hoping to get the wife onboard for a trip up that way.

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

what was the fuel burn CD ?

Right around $900. I put a lot of km's on. Mostly traveling at cruise except for the trip home which was pretty rough.

 

[walleyes]

Looks incredible man, love the boat love the pics, well done.

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

Great pics and story. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you BCRingo.

Awesome trip and pics. Hoping to get the wife onboard for a trip up that way.

Thank you tains. Oh ya for sure. The family was very eager to plan a trip for as soon as my daughters are done with their school year this summer after seeing the pictures.

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

Looks incredible man, love the boat love the pics, well done.

Thank you walleyes it was a very soothing trip. Really mellowed me out from some home stress with my daughter. When I got back both her and I were missing each other so it worked out well for both of us.

 

[banger17]

Takes me back 10 years when we camped and cruised Desolation for a week.

Amazing country - thank you for the pics and effort to post them for us!

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

Takes me back 10 years when we camped and cruised Desolation for a week.

Amazing country - thank you for the pics and effort to post them for us!

Thank you banger17 my pleasure. I enjoy sharing the pics. Can't wait to spend more time up there. And a whole new experience for us this summer with kayaks next time.

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

How fast the water and weather conditions can change. This is on the boat ride home.

 

[leftcoast]

Thanks the pictures. I'm a Powell River guy so always enjoy hearing from people who come this way and enjoy it. If you ever have any questions let me know. I guess you got a room in the lund hotel just for the heck of it? it looks like you can sleep on your boat no problem.

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

Thanks the pictures. I'm a Powell River guy so always enjoy hearing from people who come this way and enjoy it. If you ever have any questions let me know. I guess you got a room in the lund hotel just for the heck of it? it looks like you can sleep on your boat no problem.

Thank you leftcoast. I appreciate the offer. Yes, I slept on my boat 2 of the three nights. I got a room at the hotel on the second night to have a shower etc and to give my back more of a rest on a softer bed. My cuddy is ok but I do need some thicker cushions in it. I have two herniated discs L4 and L5 and they get very sore at times.