RESOURCES: Park Facility Operator:
Sea to Sky Park Services Ltd. 1-604-986-9371
info@seatoskyparks.com
Reservations: Discover Camping 1-800-689-9025 or
1-604-689-9025 in Vancouver Online:
www.discovercamping.com The Olympic Legacy Cabins overlooking Howe Sound.
November to February 28 Winter Vehicle Accessible Camping Fee: $16 per party/night
Reduced services Electrifi cation: $8 extra/night
High Season Camping Fee: $30 per party/night
BC Senior’s Rate
(Shoulder Season only): $15
per senior’s couple/night Porteau Cove Olympic
Legacy Cabin - Rates and Dates Reservations for the cabins at
Porteau Cove Provincial Park begin on April 6th, and can be made by calling 604-986-9371.
Shoulder Season: May 14 - June 24
September 7 - October 11: $179/night
High Season:
June 25 - September 6 $219/night
Low Season: October 12 - May 13 $139/night
Pets and smoking are not permitted on the property.
*Minimum 3-night stay required. I continued back along the peninsula and found, tucked in behind the walk-in
sites, the cove itself. A stonewall on the west side is one of the few remaining signs of the small settlement that once stood here. T ere is an enchanting sense of ceremony where an open lawn lays out beside the cove with a small bridge spanning a narrow backwater at the head of the cove. I walked while Kona romped along the beach of Porteau Cove and together
we spent over an hour beachcombing on the driſt wood littered beach, repeatedly throwing sticks into the water for Kona. T e Sound is oſt en calm in the morning but in the winter and summer the winds
that build can be very powerful. Because of this the water is enjoyed by windsurfers but carefully calculated by kayakers and canoeists. T e park is popular for swimming, fi shing, hiking up to a forested bluff , wildlife watching and, of course, just plain relaxing. Aſt er their aſt ernoon dive, the men returned the short distance from the dive site
to the campsite with their wet gear in tow and I was ready for them with a late lunch of steaming hot beef barley soup and fresh bread purchased earlier in Britannia Beach. Aſt er lunch we enjoyed discussing the undersea life over a cup of tea and a board game. Our second evening at the Cove was cold but clear and Peter and David prepared a
small fi re in the pit with wood we brought along with us. We planned to have an easy supper of roasted European wieners with chili and buns because we had a late and fi lling lunch not long before. While my sons prepared the evening fare, Rick and I took a leisurely stroll in the
half-light before dark and stopped to chat with the on-site Facility Operator. As this is the only provincial campground on the Sound, the Park Facility Operator told us the campsites are in constant demand from late May to early October. He informed us the park is usually full, even on weekdays, with little turnover of campsites in the morning for those folks without reservations. Open all year, fees are collected from March 1 to October 31 with full services. A winter fee begins November 1 to February 28 with limited services. Campsite reservations are accepted through Discover Camping from April to September and fi rst-come, fi rst-serve sites are also available. New to the park are the Olympic Legacy cabins built by Pioneer Log Homes of
Williams Lake, BC and used during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games at Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology as information kiosks and a showcase of BC Parks. T ey now sit at the water’s edge as you enter the park. Each cabin has one bedroom
and a loſt , a private kitchen and a bathroom. We found ourselves thinking it would be fun to encourage several of our friends who don’t have RV’s to join us here and take advantage of these beautiful facilities and the surrounding beauty. When we woke up Sunday morning there was a light drizzling rain and we decided
to have one more dive before packing up and heading home. Aſt er breakfast was cleared away and cleaned up we suited up for our last dive of the weekend.
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