July 23 Sydney Spit We spent the previous two nights at North Saanich YC reciprocal. I would recommend it to others, nice place, nice facility, very busy and really bad 15 amp power. WIFI on the club house deck and a short dinghy ride to Sydney and shopping. Were at Sydney Spit where we spent last night. It’s been quite windy here, but sunny. We have the place pretty much to ourselves. There are maybe 6 boats on buoys and their was just one boat at the dock when we arrived, now there is us and two others on the dock. No one in the park to speak of. Crabs are winning. Nothing worth keeping in the pots the last two days. At least nothing legal. Were headed to Victoria tomorrow and Wednesday. We have reservations at the dock in front of the Empress Hotel. Talking to other boaters the winds have been pretty continuous up north, several people said they gave up trying to cross the Georgia straits to go to Desolation Sound. HMMMM! Hope it gets better soon. That was not our experience last week when we were out their, it was flat as I have ever seen it. But according to the weather reports their has been high wind warnings north of Nanaimo every time I have looked. Does not bode well for our trip north in August but lots can change in that time. We took a long walk around the island today to get our exercise. Very nice trail system and of course at low tide you can walk all the way to the light at the end of the spit which is a bout a mile long.