What a day
19 October 2007 | Newport, Rhode Island
Judy/horrible weather
I was beginning to believe that they only had good weather south of the border but today made up for that!
I have so many things to say and have had such little internet access time but here I go.
We left Cohasset and the wonderful hospitability of Mike and Paula Dickey/ Mac Donald. Their house was beautiful and the girls really enjoyed the land rest. We thought that we would head to Plymouth to see the "ROCK" but the weather so so good that we continued onto the Cape Cod canal and hit the tide and went through to Onset. It took me back 20 years to the same trip on Ocean Commotion...except there was less to drink this time!
On Tuesday we headed to a sweet little harbour, Quinssett? and spent the night. It is next to Woods Hole. I stuck my head out to a clear starry night only to find there was not a light on at one of the homes on the bay...just summer "cottages". We had the view of the $100 million house being built...the stone wall was 1million. Guess we are not in the same snack bracket!
I do have to say that I have such a problem with the wealth...have to sign out..time is up..back tomorrow
Note from Steve (still in Halifax...but not for long....!):
Today was my last day at the office before leaving to re-join the girls and Semper V. The office staff had a great send off for me yesterday... Since I work in the wonderful world of public health emergency preparedness and response, things can be a little unpredictable at times. So when I was summoned to my director's office and was briefed in the vaguest of terms that there was a "situation" brewing, and that the scenario had the potential to escalate into something akin to the two-week emergency operation I was involved with over Easter weekend earlier this year, I wasn't sure whether to laugh, cry, or run away. Still, I should have known that I was being set up, since my experience has been that the overwhelming majority of real incidents in this part of the world are scheduled to occur at 4.30pm on Fridays (usually before a long weekend), and it was only 10 a.m. on Thursday.... Anyway, the office is pretty much cleared (that's what I'm telling myself, anyway...) and I'm making final arrangements to leave Halifax Sunday morning. Kiss the crackberry goodbye! The trip to Rhode Island can be summed up as "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles...then Boats!" I will fly to Boston, take the subway to the train station, take the train to Providence RI, and then hopefully get a lift to Bristol, then finally out to the boat.
I should elaborate on Judy's by-line of "horrible weather", which she summed up in a short e-mail to me as follows: "...horrible run from Westport. Wind 35 knots plus and on the nose, very heavy rain, big swells, and lightning just to make it nice. Filed a plan with Coast Guard just in case. The weather broke and we are happily anchored in Newport." And here I was reading the weather forecast on the NOAA website this morning thinking to myself: "I hope they stay put...!" Sigh. Now I have to reassure grandparents that yes, the girls were fine; no, if it had been really really bad, they wouldn't have sailed, etc etc etc. Steph and Marine will be Old Salts by the time I get there!
The laptop is working fine now, so hopefully posts will become a little more regular once I get to RI. Farewell to Nova Scotia!