June 20, 2025

Happy Summer Solstice everyone! Here at Port Edward the sun rise this morning was at 5:08am and sunset tonight is at 10:19pm. Pretty amazing.

Now that you know how our boat will get home this is what we know about the plans to get us home. They are very fluid at this time.

Since the boat gets hauled out of the water Tuesday afternoon and loaded on the transport truck Wednesday morning, we will spend Tuesday and Wednesday nights at a hotel in Prince Rupert. Thursday morning at 7:30am we catch the ferry in Prince Rupert which will take us to Port Hardy, near the northern end of Vancouver Island. We arrive in Port Hardy Tuesday night at midnight. We’ll spend Wednesday and Thursday in Port Hardy and catch a bus to Campbell River on Friday. (There’s no bus on Thursday.) From there we have a few options which we’ll finalize as we get closer.

Now for some fun stuff!

Last Saturday we decided to take the bus into Prince Rupert just for the heck of it and to kill time away from our boat. As we arrived it was clear that something big was happening.

It turned out to be the big event of the year – Seafest! The downtown was lined with people all waiting for the Seafest parade to begin. It was the perfect small town parade. (I took a video of the First Nation contingent but I don’t know how to share it here.)

There was a car show happening in the Safeway parking lot.

This car is a drag racer and is not street legal.

When I peeked in the window I got a chuckle out of what I saw. It’s hard to see the lever from all the reflections but you’ll see why…

From here we spent the rest of the day walking around town enjoying the sights which I’ll share with you now.

Lots of murals everywhere.

And I’ll leave you with this wonderful “thought for the day” taped to a window.