More Thoughts and Destinations to Come...

There is a dichotomy in boating that always pulls me in two directions.

The lure of the open sea, the awe and inspiration of nature, the peace and solitude of a cove all to yourself. This beauty of a living canvas around you that is filled with sunlight dancing on waves, an ever changing formation of clouds, the smudge of rain falling on the distant horizon, at night a thousand slivers of moonlight creating a pathway on the sea, a canopy of a million diamonds above you and sometimes if you're really lucky reflected and spread out like a carpet around your boat. All this restores my soul, grounds me, and calms me like nothing in a modern world can. This time is precious time.

But...

An invitation to join another boat or a group heading somewhere fun pulls in another direction. While you give up a little of the freedom you get just as much of something different in return. Laughter and jokes, opinions, sharing of what you have with you, togetherness, the comradery of braving a rough crossing or something new discovered. The mutual satisfaction of the return journey with stories to talk about later. And at other times, pulling into the protected embrace of a harbour or marina, tying up at the dock and meeting new people. This time is precious time too.


September seemed to fly by. We spent this last month at the dock, crabbing and partying and it was fun! Catching up with dock friends, M dock is very social now, finding out who's been where, who's fixed what, who's buying which, this is an interesting and even essential part of the boating season.

The changeover to Fall is almost complete. We will head out again on the water, hopefully this weekend with everyone to Sucia Island. I still have lots of thoughts and destinations to share. We went to some extremely beautiful places this summer, places that were even better than I'd hoped they would be. The photos turned out well and it has taken alot of time to sort and edit them to do these places justice but I am almost ready to go. I also have some opinions on things we've seen this summer that may interest you or antagonize.

I hope you will stay tuned.

Kalena