After a leisurely morning, we headed through the small canal
I mentioned yesterday
to a small bay named Horton Bay, on Mayne Island. It’s a small, very well protected bay and a
photo we saw of it made it look very inviting.
The charts indicate it can be a tricky place to get to, as the narrow,
shallow channels leading in are strewn with big rocks. But in we went, and it wasn’t too tricky as
long as we went slow and paid attention.
But once in, we decided not to spend the day there. It was very pretty, but didn’t really offer
much to occupy us and it was a little crowded with a number of boats already on
private buoys.
So it was on to our fourth choice, Ganges, which is the
largest “town” in the Gulf Islands. It’s
really more of a village. It’s been a
week since we’ve been able to do things we can only (easily) do from a dock –
like laundry, grocery shopping, long hot showers, charge our computer and get
online, and fill our water tanks. The
dock we like to go to is right in the center of things, but it’s usually
crowded and first come first served.
Luckily, just as we approached and saw no room, a sailboat loosened his
lines and took off which left just enough room for us. You don’t really parallel park a boat like
you do a car; you need to size up the space to judge if you can fit, then you
nose in at an angle and swing the stern toward the dock. If the wind is blowing the complexity
increases. I’m happy to say we got into this
spot on the dock by the skin of our teeth:
The rest of the afternoon was spent doing our chores along
with walking the streets to see what had changed since our last visit. Not much.
In the evening, there are two restaurants at the head of our dock that
feature live, outdoor music every night.
The Tree House Café had a solo woman blues singer who was quite good, we
enjoyed the free concert.
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