As you can see...I think I figured out how to post pictures.....The first is of "Reef" who I got to dog sit in Meldrum, the 2nd is an example of WHY we come to the North Channel....every evening we are treated to a spectacular example of God's handiwork! and 3 is Cap't Bob, just in case you don't recognize him!!....we are going to put his hair in a pony tail when we see our kids next week!...admittedly it is not the greatest example of one, but he is proud non the less! (and to think I am a hairdresser!!) We are both getting a kick our of our ability to grow our hair long!
We did get the dinghy arm fixed by "Norm"....THE man in Gore Bay....some refer to him as the "dock god!" He can fix anything, that is WHY he doesn't answer his phone, he is too busy.... but he found us and found our problem.....as he laid way out over the edge of the roof and looked into the arm!..Now, as to not knock Capt Bob's abilities, it did take Norm considerable time to track the problem down and Bob had checked most of the same things, except for that hanging over the roof part. "We" now know how that works.....not sure who will get to be the one to do the hanging over part to reset the breaker, if need be in the future!
So, now we are in Blind River...at the North side towards the west end of the channel. We perhaps got a little over confident in our anchoring abilities and are very happy to be attached to a dock again, getting a good nights sleep. After we left Gore Bay, after 4 days of crummy weather, but saw a great one woman "community play"....(very good, not the previous experience I have had with a one woman play, remember GA and Gini...how could we forget).....we then motored into Oak Bay....found an anchorage with about 7 other boats already there and a few more came after us...but after quite a windy night, we seemed to be the only one headed for the shore line! At 6am we were up and running, away from the shore and rocks......we found another, better protected, anchorage and I went back to bed....Capt bob never took his eyes off the anchor until noon....then he spend that night sleeping in the helm to keep a better eye on it. We do have alarms that go off in these cases, but it was faint and I was the only one who heard it....
We had another crummy weather day, but did manage to dinghy around Oak Bay and ran into (not really, just a matter of speaking) Barbara and Bill, who we had met and hung with on Mackinac Island. Bill was attempting to fix his dinghy motor (its always something!)....don't know if he got it fixed or if they tried to find us, as we left the morning after Bob stayed up all night.....
We motored thru the Whalesback Channel, checked out a few anchorages, tried one and came up with a 20 foot log perfectly balanced on our anchor!....If I had stopped screaming and taken a picture, I could have shared that with you.....Bob and I wear headphones to speak to each other when one is one deck and other in pilot house....(they are called "marriage savers") and are designed so you don't have to scream at each other.....but in this instance, I WAS screaming into his ear piece....OMG...OMG!!! Well, we left that anchorage, as remote as it was, (maybe that is why) and tried a few more that were FULL of boats....and the wind was picking up. I suggested we head to a marina!....maybe the adventurous days of my youth are behind me, as I kind of like the security of a dock.... We won't give up, just needed a good nights sleep....We plan to stay here a few nights...give Bob a chance to work on his LIST.....he is presently applying oil stain to places that need it...! Me, I am drinking coffee and watching! I love this life!
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