<\/a>and a live country music band (they were pretty good).<\/p>\n\n\n\nOur last day getting into Bellingham included some heavier weather and waves, which was a great experience too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This trip was an incredible learning experience with some skilled people (who I am so appreciative of) and friends that I’m looking forward to spending more time with in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEmpress Hotel in Victoria BC in the background. Our slip was in the marina just in front of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe view at anchor looking north from Cypress Island. Beautiful!<\/p>\n\n\n\nI can’t take credit for this picture but I loved it, thanks for sharing Denise!<\/p>\n\n\n\nEntering Victoria Harbor<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe taxi service in Victoria Harbor<\/p>\n\n\n\nChinatown in Vancouver, BC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nEmpress at night<\/p>\n\n\n\nFound a few examples during our time in Canada of Canadians being fed up with the US, but they were kind and polite to us as always.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBeach party at Sidney Spit<\/p>\n\n\n\nI had to do a couple work meetings along the way. Luckily the boat had Starlink which made it easy. During one of these meetings I looked over and noticed that the window was underwater (the boat was healing over so far from some good sailing going on up top). <\/p>\n\n\n\nI can’t take credit for this picture but I loved it, thanks for sharing Denise!<\/p>\n\n\n\nI can’t take credit for this picture but I loved it, thanks for sharing Denise!<\/p>\n\n\n\nThis was so funny! These two kids took their poles and threw a line in the water in the marina. It was a good time right up until one of them actually caught a fish and FREAKED OUT! Didn’t know what to do, so someone came along on the dock and helped them get the fish off the line. Hilarious!<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe seals enjoyed their day sunning themselves on one of the floating docks in Stuart Island<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe second half of the trip took us to Sidney Spit (where we had a beach party with the whole group, Victoria BC (staying in a slip right in front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-san-juan-islands-2025","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14808,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions\/14808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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