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Sum It Up Sunday
Summing It Up With a Short and Sweet Week!
Monday, September 08, 2014TheCambrians
It’s been
a while since our last weekly update and I realize that it’s Monday and not actually Sunday,
but you have to take access to the internet when you can so here’s a “Sum It Up”
from the 24th of July through
the 26th – it may be a short one, but it really was sweet!
After
spending an incredible week in Gardner Canal, we reluctantly upped anchor and left Owycumish Bay Thursday morning and got our first
weather forecast in as many days – a cold front will be moving through the area. But we didn’t need Environment Canada to tell
us that. It’s been much cooler lately
and we’ve been wearing layers for a week now, so we were really looking forward
to our next destination – Weewanie Hot Springs.
We were all
ready for a hot bath to fend off the cold and Weewanie ranks high with Mark
Bunzel at Waggoners who told me last year that they were the best springs in
the area. So, we excitedly jumped in the
dinghy after dinner and made our way over to the bath house only to be
incredibly disappointed – the water wasn’t hot. You could call it warm (at a
stretch). But hot? Not even close. Clearly something’s changed, but we have no
idea what it is.
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| The uninspiring bath house in Weewanie can be difficult to spot along the shoreline. |
There wasn’t
any reluctance when it came to leaving Weewanie and we dropped our lines Friday
morning to ride the current up to Kitimat where we hoped to re-provision. It’d been a while since our last good shop (Port
McNeil) and I was beginning to crave fresh vegetables (David doesn’t suffer from
such maladies, but he was ready for a nice bar of chocolate . . . or two).
We tied up at
MK Bay Marina around noon and it was non-stop for the next
24 hours: David, Sylvia and I took the
bus into town to shop while Bill and Skookum stayed behind to do their laundry;
I tried to give him ours, but he declined.
Go figure! So, that meant I had
to get up early Saturday morning to empty our hamper while everyone else slept
in (okay, so I’m always up early). But
with the laundry out of the way, I was free to walk into the neighbouring First
Nation village of Kitmaat
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| Chief Sammy's home in Kitamaat. |
We were able
to squeeze a lot in during a short period of time, but the best part of our
stay had to be when Bill scored a halibut from a local fishing charter company. For some reason one of their clients didn’t
want it and they passed it on, so Sylvia came up with a brilliant idea – fish
and chips for dinner. What she hadn’t
planned on was a little Facebook birdie alerting me to the fact that was her
birthday.
With our
fridges full again, we untied our lines mid-afternoon and bashed our way back
up Douglas Channel, stopping by Jesse Falls
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| Making a quick stop at Jesse Falls in Douglas Channel. |
It was close
to six o’clock by the time we arrived, so we rafted up for the night to
make things easier (and give David some more time to look at our
windlass). When they came over for
dinner, we had “Birthday” by the Beatles blasting over the stereo speakers in
her honour and the table decorated in birthday regalia. It took a minute or two for it all to sink in
and I think I had to point out the party hats and horns, but the surprise
finally hit Sylvia . . . and her reaction was brilliant!
The evening
was a huge success. It wasn’t a big
production, but it was a lot of fun and we all really enjoyed ourselves. At the end of the night, David and I agreed
that it couldn’t have possibly gone any better which is great because Sylvia
truly is one of the nicest people we know: she’s kind, generous, patient, very
good company and deserves only the best.
The fish and chips, by the way, were outstanding!
All and all, I’d have to say that it was the perfect end
to the day . . . and the week!
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