Exploring Pender Harbor

One of the things on our agenda this trip is to take more opportunities for hiking. We had read about a hike in Pender. Tendered over to this trailhead. Turns out it is only a half a K walk, hardly making it worth tying up the tender! 

But we had a nice view of Mahalo and Garden Bay.
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We headed over to Madeira, where there is a store, some places to eat. They were having a bit of a street fair and the dinghy dock was busy!

The town had installed quite a pretty garden for us to take in. 

Okay this setting isn't quite as spectacular as a similar recent photo of Deb I took.

Was this just in May? Were we really in France? Really in Monet's garden? We sure were. But anyway, back to B.C. 

Ace boating friend David Evans (Nordhavn guy) highly recommended Budabing BBQ burgers so of course we have to try them. And free inspiration life message! We listened to some wonderful live music. I recorded some, but there isn't enough bandwidth to upload it, what a shame.

And the smile says it all! Thanks David, for the great recommendation. We shared the table with another David and his wife, B.C. residents! They invited us to a BBQ they are having tomorrow.

But we are outta here. Tomorrow we will be in Desolation Sound if all goes well. Wish us luck.

[Hey, is that a liquor store back there????]