Cruising to Victoria, British Columbia

Destination – Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

We left Anacortes, with Skyline Marina in our wake (above), mid-morning for the cruise to Vancouver Island with a final destination of Victoria, British Columbia. We had planned to leave either on Sunday or Monday, depending on which day the weather looked best. We would have waited longer if needed. We don’t like nasty weather cruising and by that, I mean mostly high wind and waves.

When Sunday arrived, Jim thought Monday looked like the best day, so we waited the extra day. As it turns out it was perfect. It was a little lumpy the first hour or so, but then smoothed out nicely as you can see from the photos below. All in all, it took about 4 hours to reach our home for the month of February, Victoria.

Vancouver Island is now in sight of Kismet’s bow (above).

The Olympic mountains, a massive and majestic mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula, lined our portside view during our cruise to Victoria.

The water drops were on the windshield from earlier in our cruise. Fairly calm at this point. as you can see below.

The closer we got to the entrance to Victoria Harbour, the more debris we found floating in the water. It was slack tide, so the debris was easy enough to see, but it was at times hard to totally avoid the mess, so we inched our way through it with four eyes at all times scouring the path ahead of us. We were amazed at the size of some of the logs we encountered.

Now the harbor opened up to us as we made our way to the Customs Dock.

Checking in at Customs was a breeze. Jim got off the boat after we tied off to use the phone provided on the dock to register with customs. However the phone was not working, so he used ours. We were at the customs dock for less than 10 minutes.