6/19, now with photos

"Then, we were looking for adventures. Later, when we found out what adventures were like, we tried to avoid them, but they came anyway." - The Curve of Time by M Wylie Blanchet, a truly wonderful book. Evelyn loaned it to me for the trip and i sit here reading it in the rain in an inlet near Shearwater as it rains hard, 3 other cruiser boats likewise, no doubt they also waiting for better weather, otherwise we all would be out there moving. [rain video]

Mitch phoned, it's so amazing i can be parked amidst the maritime wilderness of Canada and carry on a normal phone conversation. I'll meet him and Anita in Vancouver, well, soon, it's only ~4 travel days away, but i wait on weather.

i rafted ashore this morn. Remember i complained bitterly about it in an earlier post, but this time i knelt in it instead of butt-sat and, inexplicably, there was no problem rowing at all. On the other hand, i noticed many days ago that after only 2 brief uses, the rest of its life tied to the roof, a major seam had split in its ~skin, exposing the inner air bladder. The thing worse than junk is expensive junk.

Ashore, the low tide had exposed red squishy critters that looked like upside down sea urchins. There unfortunately are not tide pools, since the steep land plunges immediately to depths. I checked where i'd seen some people go ashore yesterday, fantasizing maybe the trail to a lake? But no, it was a guy building a house in the thick wood just back from the shore. Surprised, "Good morning," i said. He just turned around and went back to work. So much for the shore excursion.

There is internet here, but i have 2 problems in that regard, verizon's 1/2 GB daily international limit, which was exhausted by a mere 10minutes of foolish Facebooking (something's terribly wrong), and my device's power supply. I have 2 big marine batteries, which i reserve for the exclusive use of starting the engine, plus a little lawn mower batt i bot for devices (computer,phone,gadget3) recharge. The small batt charges when i motor thru the day, as do the devices, then when they go low in the eve i hook 'em into the small 12v batt. Turns out that system works pretty well, but of course if i'm not moving, like today and most of yesterday, there's no recharge, and everything ends up dead (except the marine batts for the engine, which i'm not touching). Of course i could run the engine, but that seems so wasteful, especially given that >5$US gas.

So i must eschew internet & Rimworld, and instead read and look out thru foggy windows at the rain.