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Captain’s Log, Day Seven
May 25, 2022
Captain’s log, day seven of our first real retirement voyage. Although we aren’t totally retired. And except that I am not the captain. And I’m putting this here on May 26th instead of May 25th because we had no wifi at all for a couple of days.
We decided to stay a couple of nights in Green Bay so the Captain could take an extra day to rest his hand before having to haul up the anchor and so forth.
There were no other boats, and it appeared no other inhabitants. Until a hermit came down to the decrepit-looking dock adjacent to us, boarded his little boat and with a wave drove away.
It’s not that we were going to parade around naked or anything, it was too cold for that but it was interesting to see a human in a place that seemed devoid of human life.
The biggest challenges of the day were simply getting the dogs to places they could do their business. The shoreline was mostly what we call high bank waterfront, meaning not much sign of a beach in sight. Just chunks of rock covered in oysters, barnacles and other pointy bits. Our dog Kali has strong preferences for grass to sit and/or shit on and there wasn’t much of that. However, each day we prevailed several times and got them somewhere they could be off the boat.
