Ray was up first thing this morning, making his coffee and searching for the pancake batter. He chopped up some of the remaining ham, mixed it in with the batte
r and we all had hamcakes for breakfast.
There’s a small peninsula at this end of town that is now occupied by condos, and there is a smaller government dock on the other side, opposite the main town waterfront. This dock is used almost exclusively now by locals and commercial boats, but it’s where the harbor office is to pay our moorage. We could elect to deposit our payment in an envelope here, but we weren’t prepared with any cash, so I walked over there to pay by charge card. We paid for last night and tonight, along with one day’s worth of electricity. Although the electrical box here has 30 amp plugs, a sign warns us that the breakers are 20 amps, so we needed to be somewhat prudent with our power usage. Erin wanted to run several loads of laundry in our washer, so we refrained from turning on the battery charger while that was in progress.
Later in the morning we all went ashore for a walk around town. Erin and Mary went off to browse a jewelry store and to th
e pharmacy to buy some over the counter meds, while Ray and I perused the hardware section at Mouat’s before returning to the boat. I made an excursion to the liquor store to pick up a couple varieties of hard cider and a supply of Gibson’s whisky for our friends Trav and Barb, who are not cruising Canadian waters for the first time in many years.
Throughout the day we saw several Chris Crafts come in, and we presume they’re all headed for the rendezvous at Telegraph Harbour tomorrow. We know for a fact that the Key Largo, Gin Fizz and Scandalon will be there, and probably the Monaco and Alyeska will be as well. Key Largo and Gin Fizz are Canadian boats – the rest, including us, or course, are from the U.S.
We watched quite a bit of activity over at the seaplane dock today as well, with the first flights out taking off a few minutes after 7:00 am. The dock in front can accommodate up to four planes at once, and two more can moor behind our boat, where they go for refueling. We frequently saw three planes in motion, either landing, taking off, taxiing or any combination of the above. The planes were coming in from the west, flying directly overhead at about 50 to 100 feet before landing beyond the dock. The last flight came in around 8:30 in the evening.
Tomorrow we’ll top up our water tank and head out later in the morning for the cruise to Telegraph Harbour – about 3 hours of easy puttin’ along.
r and we all had hamcakes for breakfast.There’s a small peninsula at this end of town that is now occupied by condos, and there is a smaller government dock on the other side, opposite the main town waterfront. This dock is used almost exclusively now by locals and commercial boats, but it’s where the harbor office is to pay our moorage. We could elect to deposit our payment in an envelope here, but we weren’t prepared with any cash, so I walked over there to pay by charge card. We paid for last night and tonight, along with one day’s worth of electricity. Although the electrical box here has 30 amp plugs, a sign warns us that the breakers are 20 amps, so we needed to be somewhat prudent with our power usage. Erin wanted to run several loads of laundry in our washer, so we refrained from turning on the battery charger while that was in progress.
Later in the morning we all went ashore for a walk around town. Erin and Mary went off to browse a jewelry store and to th
e pharmacy to buy some over the counter meds, while Ray and I perused the hardware section at Mouat’s before returning to the boat. I made an excursion to the liquor store to pick up a couple varieties of hard cider and a supply of Gibson’s whisky for our friends Trav and Barb, who are not cruising Canadian waters for the first time in many years.Throughout the day we saw several Chris Crafts come in, and we presume they’re all headed for the rendezvous at Telegraph Harbour tomorrow. We know for a fact that the Key Largo, Gin Fizz and Scandalon will be there, and probably the Monaco and Alyeska will be as well. Key Largo and Gin Fizz are Canadian boats – the rest, including us, or course, are from the U.S.
We watched quite a bit of activity over at the seaplane dock today as well, with the first flights out taking off a few minutes after 7:00 am. The dock in front can accommodate up to four planes at once, and two more can moor behind our boat, where they go for refueling. We frequently saw three planes in motion, either landing, taking off, taxiing or any combination of the above. The planes were coming in from the west, flying directly overhead at about 50 to 100 feet before landing beyond the dock. The last flight came in around 8:30 in the evening.
Tomorrow we’ll top up our water tank and head out later in the morning for the cruise to Telegraph Harbour – about 3 hours of easy puttin’ along.
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