July 2025 – Caro Babbo

The Broughtons

Echo Bay, BC, 7-JUL-2025 – It was only an hour or so from our last stop, Waddington Bay. Yesterday, there were three boats on the dock and Irvin, the dockmaster and hereditary Chief for a local tribe came down to guide us where to dock.

I SPEAK*

Waddington Bay, 5-JULY-2025 – It’s been a month or so since I’ve written. I haven’t had much to write and had tons to write. The tons to write are all the places we’ve been and spent time, all the people we’ve met. The nothing to write is that it is very much the same as it has been in all the years we’ve been doing this: nothing is very different; we’re returning to places we’ve been and most of the new places are pretty much like the old places. We’re not traveling great distances, the rhythm is different but the same, just shorter.

Jennifer has taken control of the destinations, as she does and we’ve fallen into ‘‘getting there before everyone else does.’’ This is different. We haven’t been anyplace that getting there later would have made much of a difference.