A Floating Community




Views while departing Kingcome Sound

 

This morning we woke up to blue sky and hardly a cloud to be found.  The views were wonderful as we made our way back out Kingcome Inlet.  We continued west, entering Sutlej Channel, bound for Sullivan Bay Marina on North Broughton Island.  

Pictograph at Boyer Point, Sutlej Channel 

We stopped at Boyer Point to see another pictograph which quickly caught our attention.  Smarty-pants Leonard said it was probably an advertisement saying “eat at Joe’s.”  I said it was probably the name of the tribe, indicating that the land belonged to them.  We both agreed that might be what happened, the white man failed to read all the “no trespassing” signs.  

Sullivan Bay Marina

We continued on to Sullivan Bay, site of a lovely marina and a beautiful community of floating homes connected by a system of docks. 


Welcome Gate and Fish Cleaning Station

 

 

No doubt the community has certain rules and conditions as all the homes are very well kept and each dock has its own street name, a cute touch - names like Market Street, Halibut Heights, and Coho Culdesac.  

Dock Street Names at Sullivan Bay Marina

Par 1 at Sullivan Bay Marina

The one-hole golf course is also unique to Sullivan Bay Marina, golfers can try their luck driving a golf ball to the flagged hole positioned just off the docks.  Of course the distance to the hole depends on the tide and wind, the target can vary from 100 to 140 yards out.  

Par 1 Target

Happy Hour Tent at Sullivan Bay Marina

Sullivan Bay Marina has all the basic amenities that boaters appreciate, including showers, laundry, and a grocery store as well as a nice restaurant.  

Folks come from every direction to Sullivan Bay

Our friends Roger and Chris arrived during our second day at Sullivan Marina so we all went "out on the town" and enjoyed a delicious salmon dinner served with roasted peppers and zucchini with spaetzle. 

Nice Restaurant at Sullivan Bay

We certainly aren’t going hungry in the Broughton Islands!  The following afternoon we took the dinghy across Sutlej Channel into Dunsany Passage to explore the area and look for some more pictographs.  We were unable to locate these faded, or perhaps covered in moss pictographs, but we enjoyed our scenic outing just the same.