Winter hours in Winter Harbour

We enjoyed a lazy start this morning.  Vi made omelets to help us use up leftovers and avocados.  We headed around the bend to Winter Harbour afterward, expecting to find a small store with fresh produce and hot showers.  Instead we found a deserted town and a sign that said their hours are 4:30 to 6:30p.  Ha!  Those are the kind of hours I’d keep if I was a shop owner.  I guess with so few boats around, there’s no one around to stay open for in May.

The cruise to our next anchorage in Quatsino Sound was brief and pleasant.  The water was relatively smooth compared to yesterday and we even shook out jib to see if we could get some push from behind, but the winds were so fluky it was a lost cause.  One minute we’re heeled over with 25 knots and the next they’re coming from another direction at 2 knots.  Needless to say, the mountains around us were generating a lot of turbulence.

The other remarkable item of note for this day is cell phone coverage.  It was completely unexpected - we’ve had no coverage since leaving Port Hardy.  But a casual inspection of a map of Vancouver Island shows that Quatsino Sound heads inland toward Port Hardy and is actually not that far away from it.  We’re probably picking up their cell towers.

Kevin is hard at work making Indian food as I write and it is with his hotspot that this message will be sent.  According to him, we’ll be having mud on rice for dinner. We can’t wait.