Ganges to Tod Inlet, 24 miles, 2 ½ hours

From Heather's blog posting...

This morning we headed out of Ganges for Todd Inlet. It was about 23 miles away, so our longest cruise of the trip, at just about 2.5hrs. The weather was not so great today, and there were some small swells in the channel. But it was fine. Entering Todd Inlet from Brentwood Bay was a little scary at times as the depth ranged from 8ft to 20+ft. luckily the 8ft areas came and went quickly. We found a place to anchor in the small cove and had tuna, cheese, bread, crackers, etc for lunch. Between all the bread and sweets we have been having, Monica keeps joking about all the carbs we have been eating. She and I never have this much bread and sweets at home. Monica had been fighting off a cold this whole trip, and she looked like she wanted to take a nap. The rain was coming down pretty good, so we debated chilling for a while, or just braving the rain and heading into Butchart Gardens. We decided to go for it. Fred took us to the back entrance via the dinghy dock, paid the $33 and headed in. It was still raining, but we had our rain gear on and umbrella and just explored the place anyway. I was last there in ’05 and it looked the same, and still beautiful in the gloomy weather. We explored for about 3 hours, as Fred was scheduled to swing by and get us at 5pm. We stopped at a café and had a pepperoni roll, which looked like it was a long skinny roll covered in cheese and assumed had slices of pepperoni in it like a pizza roll type thing. But it really had a pepperoni beef stick in it, more bagel dog style. It’s funny how much they are into these beef sticks and beef jerky up here. I have no problem with this J Then we stopped at the Blue Poppy food place in there and had a chocolate mousse. This was more to add to the high carb and sweets list. After getting drenched in the dinghy on the short ride back to the boat, my Mom put dinner in the oven. We checked out the photos I took from the day, then had pork loin, red potatoes and onions and a fresh green salad for dinner. After dinner we watched ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ which I brought up, and then headed to bed soon after. I was ready to just fall asleep on the couch.