Anderson Bay is but a long narrow sliver on the southern tip of Texada, aiming to the SE. We have passed it several times before, but thought it may be too narrow if any amount of boats were in there. It was a pleasant surprise that we didn't need to stern tie. Care must be taken on how far you go in towards the beach, as it ramps up and is only 1 foot deep for the last 100 meters, deceiving from the above photo.

And the entrance affords a spectacular view that changes depending on how the boat is turned, i.e. how far into the bay you are.

We were only going to stay there one night as it seemed more like a temporary anchorage, but after discovering how good the anchor was holding (irrelevant as there was no wind at all! ) we kept staying on more day.

  As this is the first time we've actually gone anywhere this year, we made the most of the very hot weather and did a lot of swimming and sunbathing.

Our friends from Van Anda were driving down so we could go rock hunting up from the beach. The drive, even though only 30 miles, is brutal and only a large 4x4 should even attempt it. In the winter it'd be impassable, too steep, too muddy, too slippery.

It turns out this is a coast guard S&R exercise. What a spectacle for us! After an hour, everyone left and we finally went rock hunting. There's some unique marble in this area if you know where to look.

  The forecast called for a south-easter to be coming up, and you don't want to be here for one of those, so we sailed out on the morning of the 5th, heading north to our favorite haunt, False Bay on Lasqueti Island. It has been 2 years since we were there last. That's already been covered on the cruisingaround1 page so we'll skip to the next destination.

  This is the same thing that happened to the forward (only) wood floor section, and the seats. For some silly reason we thought the transom would be a better quality, perhaps "marine-grade" plywood? We were wrong. Baoquon is NOT a good name. If you buy one, be prepared to do a lot of work on it.

I'm glad we didn't have to do this job on some dock somewhere. It really is a lot of work carefully scraping off the old glue inside seams and edges.

We made a new transom from a piece of good-grade 1" plywood, then clad it between some aluminum flashing.

Using PL-5200 inside the the flat edges seems like a good way to seal things up, then some "gloozit" to attach the heavy rubber transom holders to the aluminum. The bottom black rubber will be contact  cemented on, then all the edges done up with 5200 or Sikaflex, just to be sure. Now it's all clamped and we're not sure how long this will take to dry. That's ok though as we have some  touch-up work to do on Dulcie-Darlene, so we'll be tied here for at least a week.