Anchored off Hopetown Passage-Broughtons IS
- Thread starter Mark Maulden
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We were in the cove right above the "w" on your map. There was a 38' power boat high and dry in the passage and tied off to another anchored boat.
We stayed in Claydon Bay and then cruised into Turnbull which was a bit crowded and decided to go through Kenneth Passage to this little cove. Some great kayaking..
Whoa! Our flotilla went into Turnbull Cove on one of our cruises a few years ago and did the hike over the saddle to the lake. Did not realize the lake was so large until I just looked at the map again. As I recall there was lots of evidence of the woodsmen dragging the logs out of the lake, over the saddle and down into Turnbull for the trip to market. What a feat.
There is a story in Waggoners about one boater who experienced a mini tsunami in the middle of the night resulting from a mud slide into the Cove. I zoomed in to still see where the mud slide occurred. And also the saddle over to the lake and the small dock that was there.
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Local knowledge has it that Turnbull is foul in some areas due to the logging activity. We didnt see it as that picturesque so we moved on....
We stayed overnight before turning southward, our northern most point on that trip. Never had a fouling problem. We anchored on the southeast shore, some distance away from where all the logging activity would have been by the saddle. It was most picturesque due to the sheer and high hillsides surrounding the Cove, one reason for the quite common mud slides evidenced around the shore.
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Our northern most point last year, Bay of Plenty up Laredo Inlet inside Princess Royal Island. http://mapcarta.com/24136480
I installed that float house in Hoy Bay at the native village near the entrance to Hopetown passage for an engineering company
Other end of the passage...we were in the Mckenzie sound side. I'll have to locate the pix of the grounding. Then resize it...going sailing this wknd. So next week