Aug. 17th - Prideaux Haven

After coffee this morning at Cortes, Aya & I went for a walk & I showed her around the yacht club outstation. We spent some time walking along the beach & eventually went back to get some oysters for dinner. A friend from the ballet board, Diane Kuenster, was on one of our boats & we went over to say hello to her as well. Around 11:30 we headed for Prideaux Haven & ended up anchoring there rather than by Scobel Island where our "raft friends" are.

Lunch came next & then dinghy & kayaks went down. Aya, Rod & I went for a dinghy ride while Drew was on a business call. We showed her around the area & then went over to see our raft buddies - now 4 boats, had been up to 8 while we were gone. Jon & Lois have friends on their boat too & the ladies were on their way out on their kayaks so we just visited on the water. Will go back tomorrow. As we were coming back, we ran into Drew in 1 of our kayaks - note: he hadn't kayaked in a Hobie before, only been in a regular kayak once about 30 years ago. He found a paddle in the lazarette but didn't know about the rest of the apparatus. No seat, no pedals, no rudder down...pretty funny but he was doing great!

Back to the boat (now the cocktail hour), margaritas were made & we sat up on the "Lido Deck." Sun & blue sky, with some clouds still but in the mid 70's. Eventually we had half of our oysters for dinner with salad, also on the Lido Deck. The small ones Aya & I ate raw & Rod barbequed the larger ones...yum!!! The last of our blue berry pie from Barbara (the baker on Cortes) for dessert.

Eventually, after the sun went down, we moved into the salon & commenced a game of Mexican Train. We even goaded Rod (totally not a game player!) to play with us. We finally went to bed at midnight after playing a full game (from a double 12 dice to a double zero, for those who play the game).

Got an email from another ballet board friend, Robin Gainey, who also is up here on her boat (53' Fleming that she single hands most of the summer up here). We're going to get together with her today too.