Friday, August 14, 2015

Aug. 14th - Taku Marina

3 groups of kayakers went out this morning.  Looks like an instructor goes out with each group.

We walked to the store at 10am.  We assumed that the liquor store wouldn't be open until then but it's inside the store & is open 8-8.  It was 70' at that time so still cool enough to walk - it's about 1-1/4 mi. from the marina.  It was up hill most of the way which meant downhill coming back.  

The marina filled up today - they can't hold a lot of boats.  Yellow Fin didn't come in so there are 3 powerboats where we are - boats all together.

This afternoon it got up to 82' & then a high overcast came in & temp dropped to 72' by 2:30 & then back to 78' at 3:20 with blue sky & sun again.  At 4 pm the temp dropped to 67' & wind picked up to 15-1/2 knots from the south.  Very odd!

Tomorrow we're going back to the SYC outstation at Garden Bay (Pender Harbor), leaving at 6:30am.  One of the SYC boaters who is always on the BC Boaters Net at 5pm (& in fact is leading it this week - they alternate people) raves about the chocolate milkshakes at Lavern's (?) which we think is a walk from the outstation.  Other SYC boaters on the net have been going there too since Tom raves about it so much - we'll be heading there as well.  Tom's wife, Mary Ann Liebert, ran a nonprofit in Seattle to prevent teenage pregnancies.  I was on her board in the 70's...small world.  We've run in to them, mostly in the Broughtons, but didn't see them this year.  

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