Saturday, August 15, 2015

Aug. 15th - SYC Garden Bay Outstation

It poured all night but was only drizzling by 6am.  We left at 6:30 as planned.  Forgot to say that there were 11 boats here last night - no room for more.  

It rained most of the way to Pender.  We definitely had a lumpy ride across Malaspina Straits - up to 21 knots of wind.  Visibility less than a mile.  Poor Shadow couldn't decide where to go to get comfortable & he did throw up (poor kitty).  I told the Captain that this is the only lumpy crossing he gets - all the rest have been perfect.  The Georgia Straits will be our last one. 

My neighbor, Nancy Graham, gave me a cat coloring book & colored pencils before we left.  I decided to do some coloring to try to make the time & lumpy ride go faster.  Nancy is an artist so I was a little intimidated by this - I had her show me some of her coloring when we saw them at Cortez to get some ideas.  Definitely will not match her talent but a great diversion that I wouldn't have thought of - thank you Nancy!  

We arrived at Garden Bay at 1:10.  It was grey but no rain.  It finally started to get brighter, with some blue sky about 5:30 & got up to 69'.  There are 12 boats here tonight - not full & it was pretty empty when we got here.  We'll be here a couple of nights at least - want the chocolate shake & will have dinner at the pub.

Tonight we're barbequing steak with baked beans.




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