Sailing the Karina C

Newcastle Marina
April 1 listening to the radio, looks like this boating season is dejavu of last year. You can anchor, but you can't land anywhere to get water, deisel, or food. Hopefully she (Bonnie Henry)doesn't close parks again. She talks out of both sides of her mouth, saying get out doors more, walk etc. but then closes down boaters, who basically are out here to get away from crowds of people. It seems that a few rotten apples like the drinking party at Big White ski resort are making it harder for us who have tried to avoid people, and self isolate. Her policies seem to be based on politically whims, who screams the loudest. Why punish boaters but keep junior sports, and hockey, and schools, with no masks for kindergarten kids. These people spread the virus more than us, who are only trying to get enough diesel to even be able to run our vessels home. The economy of Salt Spring takes a hit because they're not getting money from marinas, and boating supplies. If they want to keep us off their precious island I think we should stop them from coming to Vancouver Island. Let's see how long they last if they got cut off from groceries, gas, doctors, etc. that we supply. Let us go a drift, because our need for diesel isn't an "emergency" and we can just run aground, is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Anyhow, today we head home on our last leg of the journey. Next trip we'll be self contained, and do close anchorages for short times out. 
We were up early. Jay got the heater going and we ran it all morning playing computer games and staying warm. We had an early lunch at 1100 and finally shut off the heater at 1130. Motoring the last leg home was almost a non event with the exception of a S bound tug and scow at Dodd Narrows. Jay noticed the scow approaching from the N side of Dodd southbound. I looked him up on the Automated Information System (AIS) on the the chart plotter. Looked like we would meet at the narrowest part, so we idled down and waited for the scow to pass. Once through the narrows, we looked up the Duke Point ferry and, after moving the engine up a few revs, we easily beat him to Jack Point. We had a little S wind but were easily able to turn Karina around at the dock. We are home now and happy we had a little break from our terrestrial life.