A Harbour portrait

Mark Bay, Newcastle Island, Nanaimo Harbour.... we tied to a mooring at about 7:30PM after a 6:30 PM transit of Dodd Narrows at slack water and a totally perfect day on the water. A total today of 41 nautical miles most of it under sail in steady breezes. Left Genoa Bay about 9:30AM and motored through Sansum Narrows. Sails up in Burgoyne Bay about 6 nautical miles later and they stayed up until the wind dropped at the north end of Stuart Channel around 4:30PM. Wind on the nose, on the beam, wing on wing all day, one or the other. 5 knots to gusts of 18 knots. More often than not we had a steady 10 knots and perfectly blue skies and fluffy white clouds to match.

P and I have just finished a pasta supper in the cockpit watching the sun on the water. I was commenting about how much I love the late afternoon sun as it sparkles on the water and then the wonderful colours and reflections that come with the low, soft light of evening. Then I looked behind the boat and was taken by the yellows and reds, the last of the daylight bathing the boats and the docks in a warm glow.

Lovely to be absolutely unscheduled, except for the "Narrows" transit today of course. Somehow that doesn't count. ;-)