Cruising To Prideaux Haven

Prideaux Haven is the area made up of Melanie and Laura Coves.

As you can see from the photos it was a spectacular day for cruising in Desolation Sound.

This area is a very popular anchorage in Desolation Sound and since we knew we were going during Canada’s Civic Holiday, a three-day weekend, we knew it would be a busy place. As we neared Prideaux Haven, we followed a few boats into Melanie Cove and found them quite large and filled with boats of all shapes and sizes, many rafted together. This seemed too much company for our tastes, so we decided to keep moving to check out the adjacent, and smaller, Laura Cove.

Floatplanes were busy all weekend bringing and taking people to and from boats. They landed out in the open water of Homfray Channel and if you had a ticket to fly you just dinghied out to the plane at a predetermined time.

We spent a lot of time investigating where we wanted to throw the hook for a few nights. There were a lot of places to choose from, so it was not an easy task.

This was the biggest yacht we saw during our stay in Prideaux Haven.