I say it's the darn freezer door.
Dave calls it SA.
That's an acronym for Situational Awareness.
Although he did kiss the boo boo better and thank the lucky stars that I didn't lose the finger, break a bone, need stitches, or worse...
But first, le'ts back up... after a good ole walkabout in the town of Lunenburg
where we walked by the Fleur de Sel restaurant (still on my bucket list, but will have to wait until our next visit)
we aslo came across Derek Hatfield's Spirit of Canada raceboat,
and the ruins of Greenpeace's Farley Mowat (we watched that documentary a few months back, and pure happenstance, came across the boat here in Lunenburg...)
And lo and behold as we walked along, we could see the mooring field out there and well, one of those boats there is ours ? Where's Banyan ?
By then it was getting hot, the winds were just perfect... so perfect in fact the schooner boats were having themselves a good ole race... scooting in front of, behind, beside and every which way around us.
I was nervous, and WE were the ones anchored !
Thank Goodness they knew what they were doing.
Dave said "situational awareness" !! Ya, but ... I could almost lean out and high five the people on the other boat !
And once again, we were out there enjoying the lovely cool breeze and sailed along towards our intended destination (somewhere south of somewhere)... finally settling in for the evening at Mosher's Island.
A great evening after a great sail... enjoying the quiet, the scenery,
and well, that's when the freezer door slammed shut on my middle finger of my right hand.
Ouch.
No, seriously major Ouch.
I was getting ice-cubes. In case you wanted to know.
Dave had been talking to me, and talking and talking, and finally he stopped when there was no response and came for a look-see...
By now he knows that when there's no response that life is NOT good.
Anyhow, thankfully no major damage done... and well, (shh, no need to tell him) situational awareness IS where it's at !!
The rest of the evening was spent enjoying our supper (BBQ steak, roasted potatoes with onions and herbs, and steamed carrots and green beans)... I don't think even Fleur de Sel could've topped that meal !
Despite being one-handed, the morning chores were easily (and quickly) done while Dave motored through the pea soup fog towards the La Have River Yacht Club. There we watered up and fueled up, and washed the boat, and all that in higher than high water. After all we weren't repeating last year's fiasco were we ??
The winds were great and we were going to do some more training of yours truly, but as we exited the Yacht Club we looked left and right. To the right was a thick (COLD) looking fog bank coming in but quick, and to the left was the La Have River, the sun, a gentle breeze... What would you do ?
And so we let the jib out and coasted along just so we could see how far we could get.
Along the way there were cormorants everywhere
and we continued along the twisty turns and enjoyed the scenery just around the bend type of river. We were in Bridgwater before we knew it.. the HMCS Cormorant still there (but the HMCS Fraser was thankfully resting in peace). We waved to the parents of our next door neighbours that were on the pier, what a surprise to see them there.
And then we motored back to anchor in Buck's Cove, where we're enjoying some free wi-fi, time to catch up on the news we've missed. The best part is that we've figured out how to input our lat and long into the sailblogs XPLOT page, so that you can see our journey with Google Earth - just click on our "current position".
Let us know how you make out with that... we think it's pretty cool, especially if we can link the blog to the location !!
Technology is pretty darn amazing... just remember though, it's all about the SA !!!