Clean Again - 6/5

High pressure over Vancouver Island has been giving us glorious sunshine yesterday and today.  We celebrated by taking showers on the back deck this morning after arriving at the anchorage early.

It’s a loose term: shower.  There’s a deck fitting that’s connected to the boat’s pressurized fresh water system, supplying hot water though a shower hose.  If water was unlimited, it might be considered a “real” shower, but as things are, with the water-maker down, we have to be careful about how much water we use.  I use the shower hose to wet my hair in short bursts over a bucket, then suds up the hair and use the sudsy water caught in the bucket to scrub my bod.  The last step is to try to rinse using as little water as possible.  We probably end up using a half gallon or so each - a minor amount of water in the scheme of things.  It feels delicious to be clean again.  That should hold us until we’re in Tofino three days from now.