Ucluelet

Wed June 30th

I slept in this morning and Jim made bacon and eggs for breakfast! So good not to feel nauseated! Then we spent the morning doing boat chores and recovering from our big trip the night before.

After lunch we took the dinghy to the main marina, getting sprayed by a passing shower on the way. It wasn’t far, kinda like driving your car to get milk from the store a few blocks away!! It had a nicer set up with electricity and wifi access. The Canadian Princess is moored here permanently and is used as a restaurant plus they run whale watching and fishing tours off these smaller boats with various names ending with princess!

We walked up to the ice cream shop as the sun had come out and warmed the place up. Had some gelatos watching the traffic go by in this small town. It caters mainly to fishing both commercial and recreational and there were a lot of fishing boats around, some just little tinnies (aluminum dinghies) and some luxurious big boats. A Canadian told us he just bought a new Bayliner in Bellingham, they were practically giving them away! I decided to stock up on seasickness drugs – for Jacintha and us just in case the trip back is just as bad!

We then moved our boat to the main marina where we connected to mains power and had fresh water to fill up the tanks. It’s a luxury to have mains power! We can run the electric water heater, our little fan heater, watch a movie on the big television (yes we have a 36″ TV with surround sound on board), make microwave popcorn and I can run the bread machine to make fresh bread.

Since we bought new batteries for the boat last year, we don’t have to connect to mains power too often as our batteries last us more than a couple of days off the grid, especially since we also seem to motoring a lot more, due the the larger distances we’re traveling, hence charging the batteries with the alternator. Motoring also heats up our water so after a long day of motoring we can all have hot water showers on our boat.

Jim bought a 5 day fishing license while Jacintha had a nap and I had some quiet time to finish my book, “The Healer”. We had BBQ steaks with roast potatoes for dinner that night. Jim washed his boat after dinner.

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