Crease Island to Lagoon Cove

With fog draped over the islets along our route, we left Crease Island and set a course for one of our favorite stops anywhere in the Broughtons: Lagoon Cove.

my favorite kind of fog

A big part of what makes Lagoon Cove special is Dan and Kelly. They are exceptional hosts—warm, welcoming, and always ready to help with whatever a visiting cruiser might need. From the moment you arrive, there is a sense that you are more than just another boat pulling into the marina.

Then there is happy hour, a Lagoon Cove tradition and one of the highlights of any visit. Fresh-caught prawns are the centerpiece, joined by an ever-changing assortment of appetizers contributed by the boats on the docks. It is casual, communal, and a wonderful way to meet other cruisers and compare notes on where everyone has been and where they are headed next.

We also enjoy simply wandering the property. There are trails to explore, blackberries to pick when they are in season, and the walk over to the Honeymoon Dock is always worth making.

happy days at lagoon cove as the fuel barge arrives deliversing diesel, gasoline and propane.

There is one Lagoon Cove activity we have largely given up on: prawning.

For reasons I have never quite figured out, the bottom here seems determined to keep my prawn pots. I can set them almost anywhere else with confidence, but at Lagoon Cove there is a remarkably good chance I will spend far too much time trying to free one from whatever lies below. After enough wrestling matches with the bottom, I have finally decided that Dan and Kelly’s happy-hour prawns are a much safer option.

This afternoon we picked blackberries and settled back into the familiar rhythm of Lagoon Cove.

As Karen put it while enjoying the berries we had just gathered, “Lagoon Cove feels like home.”

That pretty well sums it up.

LAgoon Cove, our favorite marina “home”