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Captains Log, Day Twenty-Two
June 9, 2022
Captain’s log, day twenty-two of our first real retirement voyage. Although we aren’t totally retired. And except that I am not the captain. And I am posting this several day later due to zero cell service. And yes, we are alive and well.
We left Florence Bay and headed out of Hole in the Wall to access a little cell service before heading for our next destination where we were pretty sure there would be none.
There were no critical messages from anyone and after a little cruise around some areas the Captain had travelled in some previous work on the water we headed back towards where we were catching slack water at the entrance to Hole in the Wall.
A short trip brought us to the Octopus Islands Marine Park on Quadra Island. This is a beautiful spot although hard to tell with the rain sleeting down. Dropping the anchor, just like pulling it up in Florence Bay was a wet experience even with raingear on.
We have been capturing rainwater and adding it to our water tank. We lit the oil stove for warmth and were able to have short showers because of this abundance of water. So that’s something. In these few weeks we’ve been boating we’ve had a few showers, have washed in the ocean and had some basin baths but we do have to ration water to some extent. Except when the rain is…
