We seem to be
catching up a bit on rainfall, something we had practically none of during the
first 6 or 7 weeks of our trip. It was
raining pretty hard this morning, and when it wasn’t raining the clouds were
low enough to almost qualify as fog. We
anticipated moving over to the government dock this morning when folks started
leaving, but not many are leaving in this weather. The ones that are leaving are coming from the
marina behind us.
Erin made blueberry pancakes with bacon for us,
and we whiled away the morning alternating between reading and glancing over at
the docks to see who may have left, or who was preparing to leave. Finally, around 12:30 or 1:00 I noticed one
of the boats had left. We hurriedly
fired up the engines and weighed anchor, but by the time we had our 100 feet of
chain recovered, we could see another boat coming in and making a beeline for
our intended spot. We lost out on that
chance, but Erin spotted activity aboard the
Content, a 1930 cruiser that was moored at the breakwater dock. We headed over there, and Erin
confirmed with them that they were leaving, in about 5 minutes or so. We hovered far enough away for them to get
away from the dock, but close enough to be sure
we would get the spot. We were
successful, and within a few minutes there were more boats coming in perusing
the government docks looking for space.
Later in the afternoon I went over to the office to pay for moorage, and
the wharfinger told me that the turnover had been unusually low the past few
days. Now it’s only a couple days until
the Saturday Market, a big to do here in Ganges. Dock space will be at a premium for that –
we’ll decide tomorrow if we’ll hang around for it.
We also made a
trip to the grocery store to catch up on some needed items, and Erin went to a small shop to get some more spices that
she, and everyone else too, enjoyed. We
got a couple jars here on the way north about 6 weeks ago and now they’re in
demand.
We’re back at one
of our favorite dock spots and, although it gets a bit bouncy here, we
still
enjoy the activity at the seaplane terminal and we’re close to town for Ray and
Mary to wander in at their leisure.
There are a few more boats showing up and anchoring today, including a
mega-yacht with a helicopter on its upper deck.
Late this evening
we were treated to a light show – a lightning and thunder storm swept through
for a couple hours, and it rained harder than we’ve ever seen it rain up
here. In fact, it was probably raining
harder than we’d ever seen it rain anywhere west of the Rocky
Mountains. The rain
flattened the water in the harbor to where it looked like an expanse of
pavement with the droplets bouncing up from it.
Hopefully the storm blew away the weather system we’ve had for that past
few days and we can return to blue skies and sunshine. We’ll see…
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