North Channel Grand Adventure – Day Four
July 14, 2012
Birds. Boats.
Cooking-ban.
We left our idyllic spot
in Beardrop Harbour this morning and headed back to Gore Bay, Manitoulin
Island, Ontario, Canada. Wow, what a
mouthful! CSO looked at Sirius Weather
and determined that the chances of thunderstorms had moved up from thirty to
fifty percent, so we pulled up anchor and chose the safety of a real bay and a
marina’s stable, floating dock. Of
course, as soon as we were tied up, hooked up, and signed up, we headed to the
village’s “downtown” and a serving of the world’s best frozen yogurt. CSO and I both chose peach. We did a walk-a-bout whilst we enjoyed our
frozen treat, then did some necessities shopping – such as a food-basting
brush, batteries, small propane canister, Band-Aids and Moleskin for my
persistent heel blister, a thank-you gift for some friends, and a pair of new
eye-shades for moi. My nieces would be
proud of my new shades!
After lunch, which
consisted of a dehydrated but resurrected Idaho potato, Southwestern style, CSO
is now washing Das Boot and I am waiting for the knock-knock to alert me that
it is time to go help dry off the Aqua RV.
It always seems a little oxymoronic to wipe water spots off a boat, but
– hey – those are the captain’s rules and I have to follow the captain’s rules
(to a point, I’ll have you know) if I want to ride around on the boat.
I just looked at my email
on my fifteen minutes of free marina time, discovered that I had over 200
emails and decided that trying to read any of them was pretty pointless with
just fifteen free minutes on the marina’s hotspot.
I listed birds at the top
of my posting. Seagulls must be the most
annoying-but-protected birds on the face of the earth. They also are the most optimistic and patient
birds I’ve ever observed. One bird will
sit for hours, either on a rock or float on the water, in the event that
something edible will either float by or be tossed overboard by a boater.
Lastly, I listed a
Cooking Ban. I informed CSO that I will
not be cooking onboard tonight, even if it means walking over to the nearby
restaurant with my raincoat on. If he wants
to eat, he can either fix his own meal onboard or walk over in the rain with
me.
His choice.
Ancora imparo
