Sidney by the Sea on the Saanich Penninsula

Many moons ago, we bought a sailboat and used Sidney, British Columbia as our staging grounds for a 5-year world sailing cruise with our young family. We spent many weeks in Westport marina, just north of Sidney, getting ready to head out. Tioga was in a slip to the left in the picture. Where have the years gone?

Westport Marina

First thing in the morning we head to Oceanside RV resort to get a site for the next two nights.

Oceanside RV Resort - just south of Sidney, BC

Very nice site - #36

Then we head into Sidney, unload the bikes and have a poke around to see some of the old sites and the old marine supply stores where BOAT took on the meaning Bring Out Another Thousand! 

Years ago, we also spent a short time on our boat Tioga in the Sidney marina right in the downtown. It was very nice, but we needed a working marina with boat lifts and haul out options, thus Westport marina became home. 

Sidney Marina

We bike all along the Sidney waterfront and eventually end up out at Allbay Viewpoint. 

Allbay Viewpoint

Back when we owned Tioga out here, Jacque and Bea, of  Bea's Canvas and Tartarooga Jacque Dodgers did a lot of work for us building a hard dodger for Tioga. We had heard sadly Jacque passed away, but Bea is still doing canvas work. We search her out but sadly the shop is already closed by the time we work our way there. 

We had a great day exploring around on our bikes.