The Cortez Day festival is held at Smelt Bay Park near the Sutil peninsula and offers good temporary anchorage and access by dinghy. A narrow single lane blacktop road also winds along the shoreline to the park. Below, Brooke searches for a memorable ice cream shop from a previous visit, evidently no longer in operation. We left the festival as the incoming tide began to lift the dinghy from its dry perch on the beach and took the long way back to Gorge Harbour by way of the west shore of Marina Island giving the elusive salmon a few testing casts, to no avail. Today we're off to points south. THe weather is deteriorating slightly with south winds and rain predicted. We may take the Gold Coast south along the east shore of Texada instead of the preferred stop at Hornby. We'll monitor conditions and the NOAA weather channel on the VHF as we go.