Thanks for the feedback.
To reply to some of the comments --
Weather -- I am a bit weary of commenting on this as it has been fantastic. Maybe 2 days of rain and that was very light. It is cloudy and damp today but mostly T shirt and shorts -- very warm. Wind has been great with only Johnstone St. being a problem. I am starting to plan for the crossing to the Charlottes and we may have to head over early to get a good forecast.
The problem with keeping up to date -- The form to do the blog is online. and when we can't get an Internet connection we have a problem keeping current as the blogging program really doesn't like Word but we think that Notebook will work to keep a daily writeup which can be transferred when we get connected. We find the it is quite a busy end to the day getting tied up/anchored, dinner ready, the dog ashore, and do a write up for the Blog but at the same time realise that if we don't get something down it will get swallowed up by the events of the new day.
As for individual photo captions -- not going to happen -- mostly because we haven't found a way to do that yet and Baillie our altitude IS sea level or 0.
Spot is really doing the job. The big problem is to remember to turn it on or off -- just another new thing to add to the list when we depart or arrive anywhere then remember to turn on the arrival message whish is a bit of a process but I gather it is interesting to watch -- I wish it would show the whole trip.
Abby is a total show by herself. Between barking at the whales, seals, dolphins and anything else she thinks is a threat to the boat, she is learning how to deal with tacking and generally life on a boat.
When we were tacking up Oscar Passage yesterday (20+kts over the deck) she got into crossing from side to side during the tack and lying on the highside -- see photo -- with her head on the combing -- very cute. She spends most of her time being totally cute. She doesn't get Gravol any more and seems totally fine. When we have found a large beach -- Hakai and the hot springs -- she goes nuts -- running around at max speed until she literally falls over to catch her breath -- then she is off again.
I hope that helps explain some items -- many thanks for the comments
Cheers, Turicum
Hi Hale, June, Abby and Kaht! I couldn't post for some reason yesterday. I love the photo of the bow reflecting in the water with the whale. Wish I was with you guys. Glad to hear Abby is adapting. Are you gonna have fresh crab when you get to QC Island? Take care, Penny
ReplyDeleteGREAT MINDS THINK "ALIKE" ---
ReplyDeleteJust last night i was thinking that it was unfortunate that i couldn't get SPOT to show the entire track of the adventure and that if i'd known it was going to be lost, segment by segment, i would have tried to COPY or SAVE AS or PRINT or some such manouver. I'v spent 20 minutes trying to get it to cough up what must be stored somewhere in memory but after trying HELP etc i can't even find a way to contact them to ask. [Of course that phone number is beyond my capabilities.]
THOSE OF FOOLS SELDOM DIFFER ---
Occasionally during my travels there's being a need to keep a log. I sympathize with u ! It's always the very last thing to be done after a long day and when u really now just want to wind down, there it is: the Sword of Damacles.What could be/should be fun becomes a laborious, infuriating commitment that has all the annoying properties of "how long is a piece of string?". All those events that, at the time, u wrote up so cleverly and humorously in your mind, now face the knife's edge of "can i be bothered to include this too, at the expense of another five minutes of my 'tot of rum' time?"
I do apprecaiate what price u pay to keep this fresh and from becoming [as u so astutely put it] "swallowed up by the events of the new day."
Salut B
Hale,
ReplyDeleteI'm really getting a charge out of watching your Spot coverage and making a small wager with myself as to how far &/or which anchorage you are heading for on any given day.
Keep up the adventure and hopefully we'll meet up during the summer and I'll hear more tales from the wilderness.
Cheers
Bill