Floating in Paradise. August 24, 2009.
09 September 2009 | Quait Bay, Clayoquot Sound
Photo: the float house, "Fireweed"
If the threatened gale ever blew, we didn't see it in Matilda Inlet, although it did rain during the night. By morning the rain had stopped and we caught the tide up inlet into Clayoquot Sound to Quait Bay. There we took our dinghy around the corner to a little cove where our friends Wayne Adams and Catherine King live on an elaborate floating complex called "Fireweed." (See Voyages to Windward for the story of our first encounter with them and the history of their floathouse and the neighboring cove). Every time we visit them their pink and green float house complex is grander and more beautiful. This year we noticed a new boat, painted pink and green, tucked into a pink and green boathouse.
Wayne and Catherine are both ivory carvers. Their carvings are too expensive for people like us but they've recently started using their carvings to produce molds for candles. We came away with a boxful.