Toba Fall Explore

The day began at Gorge Harbour Marina on Cortes Island, where the crew came aboard Miss Behaving for a multi-day cruise into Desolation Sound and beyond, the captain setting a course that would carry them through some of the coast's quietest, deepest water.

From Squirrel Cove they passed through the cut between West Redonda Island and the Martin Islands into Waddington Channel, with the forested shorelines closing in green and still around them. They made their way to Toba Wilderness Resort, tying up at the docks beneath the trees, with the hot pool and its mossy timber walkway reflecting the forest above.

The next stretch took them into Toba Inlet itself, the fjord walls rising straight from the deep water, rock faces close enough to touch from the boat. Along the way the crew watched sea lions hauled out on the rocks at the inlet's edge, and passed rocky islets crowned with wind-bent trees, their reflections doubled in the calm channel.

Turning back, they threaded Homfray Channel toward Desolation Sound Marine Park, choosing among Prideaux Haven, Laura Cove and Melanie Cove for a quiet, protected night. A lay day followed, spent meandering through the park's coves and inlets, with mist lifting slowly off the water one morning to reveal the islands beyond.

In the evenings, the docks glowed with small comforts — a pot of pink and yellow flowers set against weathered driftwood, the sky behind it streaked red and gold at sunset, boats resting quietly at their moorings.

The cruise wound down past Powell River and across the Salish Sea, over the Comox Bar and into the shelter of Henry Bay on Denman Island, where the crew watched the sun go down over the stern, closing a trip spent entirely on the water, among forest, fjord, and calm anchorages.