The best thing about sneaking a spot on someone else’s boat in the summertime is being able to see our North Shore scenery from a different POV.

A recent trip from Lake Yaletown (what boat folk dub the area around Yaletown’s marinaside/Science World) into Deep Cove and up Indian Arm allowed me the chance to take snaps of a few hidden waterfalls, the old abandoned stone hydro buildings of Vancouver’s yesteryear and an absolutely bonkers-looking sky and sunset (on the return trip home).

Now if I only had a nautical-themed pashmina afghan…