Features2012 Seattle Boat Show Coverage
Follow Cruising Northwest as we take in the 2012 Seattle Boat Show... See the slide show to the right and we hope to add some video as well! Looking for something specific, send us a note and we'll seek it out for you!
A Time Capsule in the Gulf Islands
 By Troy Olason Over the years I know there have been many upgrades, changes and additions to the Telegraph Harbour Marina, at first glance it seems that almost nothing has changed. The building was red a few years ago when I last stopped in just for fuel on our way home to Everett from the Sunshine Coast. If memory serves me correctly it was always red. Telegraph was an annual stop for the Ebb Tide (my grandparents boat) from the 50's through the mid 80's. This past July it became one of the stops on our 2011 cruise plan. The main building and the shower/laundry building had been painted green. Aside from that... at least visually, it is literally a living time capsule. 
Ron, the new owner, greeted us as our group tied up on K dock. I then headed up to see Tara, Ron's wife, at the store to pay for moorage. As I walked up the pier I could see the concrete shuffleboard court off to the left and the swing sets
up further on the right (over by the showers/laundry building). But where is the ...oh, there it is, the horseshoe pit just adjacent to the swings.
I continued up the walkway toward the store. Upon entering the front door I see them, the bolted down 'diner' stools around the L shaped coffee counter, exactly as it was
when I was a boy visiting this wonderful place some 30 years ago. It made me feel like I traveled back in time and that maybe I could walk the docks one last time with my grandfather and my dad.
It all came back to us. My brother and I uncorked the stories, you know the ones, "when we were kids we used too..."
Of course the kids immediately asked, "where's the pool?"
As the tide rises up over the dark rocks (sitting in the sun all day) the water heats up to about 70f. No need for a pool. Our kids (12 in the group) all swam in the bay, they played horseshoes, shuffleboard, badmitten, swung on the swings and generally loved
 The BistroWhen you go up to the "store" you quickly realize that this is much more than the store and office, the Bistro sign out front is your first clue, that's right, there's a chef now!
You will also find some basic provisions much like a little corner store. While we didn't eat dinner there, the menu was very tempting.
The breakfast was fantastic, fresh bakery items, bacon that makes you nod in approval from your first smell. The coffee... well that is a story all on its own.
Thetis Island
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Just around the corner from the Farm Market you see a larger wooden coffee pot sign that hangs at the dirt road entrance to the 
