The only exciting part of this leg of the trip was having to cross the shipping lanes. Just after passing Victoria, we found ourselves on the wrong side of the lanes with two huge ships chasing us. Pat was running bow to stern and back trying to figure out what they were up to. Could we cross in front of them? Or did we need to wait for them to pass? We waited. Then they slowed down! Pat could see on the Navigation charts a boat speeding towards the 1st ship, pulling alongside it and matching the ship’s 4 knot speed. These were commercial ships coming into Canadian waters. We surmised that they were taking on a Canadian ship’s pilot before proceeding. Probably we had plenty of time to cross the shipping lanes but no need to risk a monster with a bow wave taller than our boat running us over. We followed them up the channel towards Sydney. Sorry, no pics!
We called early for reservations at the Port of Sydney. Didn’t hear back so called a private marina up the coast and got a reservation right off the bat. Now the entire reason for going to Sydney is the bakery. The very same bakery that Patrick frequented as a wee child from his Dad’s cabin cruiser has survived COVID and the line is 1/2 a block long, Of course we were not arriving in the morning which is when you have to go to a bakery. Just as we were about to pass Sydney, my phone rang! They had a spot for us and they allowed us to stay for 2 nights just so we could get to the bakery.
OK that’s not all we did in Sydney. We enjoyed stretching our legs on their 2.5 kilometer walkway along the coast from the Marina, then there’s the laundry, vacuuming dirt and dog hair and cleaning up the boats after almost 2 weeks, etc, etc. And across the street from the bakery was a fabulous Indian Restaurant. So you see, we needed that 2.5 km walk!
Sydney Marina from the walkway 
Flowers everywhere
And Sculptures. This one is named Tsunami 
Early morning foggy walk. Oops, that’s not the direction to exit the marina. It was gone by the time we left the marina the correct way. Hopefully not much damage.
Holeinthewater 