Sunday September 10, 2017

Engines on at 9:00 and we extricated ourselves from all our ties. It was a nice ride down initially, but of course by the time we got around Sarah Point, it got windy. Not the light that was in the forecast, but, yeah, whatever. There were quite a few boats heading south and we had to squish around a bit in the Copelands, especially because there were 2 humpbacks there just hanging around and causing the boats to go here and there.

We managed to get the last 2 spots on the docks, and actually a sailboat that we passed in the Copelands had to hang out for 45 minutes to get a spot on the dock. We were on either side of 'A' dock and Spellbound had to squeeze into a spot behind Grey Malkin II who we had seen in Kwatsi Bay. They arrived *just* ahead of us.

Once settled, we decided that today was a good day for lunch at Nancy's Bakery. I think we pigged out also having cinnamon buns and coffee's too, as well as panini's. Then it was time to walk it off by going on the Lund Loop - it's a whopping 1km walk! But Bella did walk most of it. We were very surprised to see some ripe and delicious blackberries still on the side of the road. Back down the road to get to Mile 0 of Highway 101 that runs over 15,000 km down to Chilie. (There's a monument that says so). And then to the hotel to check out the Gift Shop. (Oh my, very cute seal statues and some cool "art" rocks with starfish on them). Nice Stuff.

Before we went on the walk, we decided that tonight was the night to go to the Laughing Oyster for dinner. (It was buffet night! You know us old people always enjoy a buffet!! ). So we also called for Martin in the "Big Yellow Taxi" to drive us over there.



He picked us up at 5:45 and drove us over to the Laughlin Oyster restaurant. Technically, he doesn't charge for the service because he doesn't actually have a license to drive a taxi. But he does take a donation for the local humane society, so how can you argue with that really? It's a really cool car but you can tell that the seats haven't had any new stuffing in them since 1947!

The 4 of us were absolute pigs at the buffet, everything was really good. They had chicken, pork, beef, pasta and a lovely salmon as well as lots of other stuff. You really did need to try it all! And if that wasn't bad enough, we even ordered dessert which I knew was a bad idea. But you don't see Tiramisu all that often and it was done *right* so, really, we had to have some. Martin picked us up and took us back to the marina again and we waddled back onto the boats. The wind picked up at the end of the evening, and the boats were a rocking pretty well at the dock.