Sunday August 20, 2017

Slack at Stuart Narrows wasn't until around 1:45 so we certainly had some time to kill this morning. It was a bit dreary, and at one point in the morning it seemed like the wind was coming up, but then it died off again and was it's normal glassy self.

Sue made fresh made scones for 2nd breakfast, so Greg made coffee's all round on Spellbound and we sat around and pigged on fresh scones and home made Jan Jam. Lovely. Some activity on the dock but not much. We spent some time talking to Inid on Astral Star and she talked about the logistics of getting her husband Richard into proper medical care while traveling up north. He ended up being medivacked from Bella Bella down to Vancouver and spending almost a month there. Although Inid is Canadian and originally from Vancouver, Richard is from New Zealand and that is where they currently live. And is where the boat is registered. They shipped it from NZ to Victoria last year, cruised to Alaska, and kept it in Anacortes over the winter. He is clearly much better now and they are working their way south to be in Vancouver for a followup appointment on August 31st. Not pleasant of course and they will have some decisions to make long term, but at least it was good to hear a positive story about the Canadian medical system.

Picked a few veggies out of the veggie garden, worked on the Blog, but otherwise didn't do too much. Our new shadow, Sparky, left first and then we also left and cruised slowly down to the Narrows in cloud cover but lovely water conditions. Sullivan Bay come up sooner than expected and there was no current at the dock so it was an uneventful trip. Headed to the store to check in and to pick up some groceries. The place was very quiet with not very many boats. Debbie said that it was the slowest June and July that she'd ever seen in 11 years. She said it was the weirdest year ever. And she said that the season was tapering off already as the number of boats had been decreasing. The amount of "stuff" in the store certainly reflected that too as it was quite cleaned out. Debbie and Chris were heading to Port McNeill though tonight to do a freight run in their own boat as the water taxi had "double booked" for tomorrow. Since it was pretty slow, they were taking a rare night off on shore and returning the next morning with freight for the store.

We bought some ice cream with our groceries and came back to EG to enjoy them. Had some quiet time and then had Fajita's for dinner on SB with nanaimo bars for dessert. (How did the store still have these, we don't know). We watched a so so supposedly "rom com" movie on DVD that we found in the movie bin in the laundry area.