Author: zoebird2005

And we’re off! Finally!

We arrived at the boat yesterday afternoon. Bought a few vegetable and enjoyed some Steveston Pizza for dinner and then Jim drove back to the house to get the cat food I forgot to pack!

We took our time this morning. I don’t think we left the dock until well after 10 AM.

Without Jenny to walk it is a whole different routine! Jenny is 14 now and is not enjoying the boating experience any more and she finds the stairs on the boat difficult. She is staying behind with the daughter of a friend. Danielle is Jenny’s favourite person in the world! Danielle house sat and took care of both Jenny and Lilly when we were away in 2017

Jenny out for a walk today with Danielle. Photo from Danielle. Jenny loves a good creek!

Lilly happy to be back on the boat – not so much!

Lilly is travelling with us — we thought it would be easier for Danielle because she is such a pain in the neck at the house in the summer. She is always trying to jump off the deck and escape out the door.

Lilly does enjoy the boat when we are at anchor or at a dock but she is not so fond of the traveling.

Finally relaxing in the cockpit after a long day motoring up to Bargain Bay on the Sunshine Coast.

Bargain Bay with a lovely rainbow.

Tomorrow we will head off to Squirrel Cove on Cortes Island

A lot has been happening since I last posted. The last couple of summers we have not been the best boating summers for us. Although we did some boating in 2018 and 2019 we did not get out and much as we would have liked.

We did get to a Krogen rendezvous at Bowen Island in September of 2018.

We have been spending a lot of time with our grandson. He’s the loviest little guy! He is 3 – going to be 4 in October. We would love to take him on the boat with us. He has been to the boat at our home dock many times. But he is still a little young and gets quite upset when it’s grandad’s turn to “drive” the boat.

He knows his own stateroom and his bed

Our plan is to head out on the water in the next few days. In this time of COVID-19 we will do some self isolation at anchor away from parks and people and we will see where the time and the tide takes us!

I’m going to try blogging more frequently this year. I am still learning the WordPress platform

Unfortunately this WordPress App in not very user friendly!

We have been busy this year spending time with our grandson.

Jim has been working hard on the boat this past couple of months. The boat was on the hard for a month. He was replacing the zincs, and doing some bottom paint sanding and cut polishing and waxing and deck and bright work jobs.

We are getting ourselves organized to head off for a few weeks. We will leave when we are ready! That’s the plan.

We had a lovely sunny weekend on the forecast so we took Phoenix Hunter in to False Creek area in Vancouver.

We spent 3 nights at Fishermen’s Wharf right beside Granville Island.

Blue skies all weekend. Although it was a little cool. We had a great time. Walked and shopped a lot around Granville Island – which was crazy busy full of people !

I’m still resting the WordPress blogging app.

This is a trial post of a WordPress blog. I’ve had such a terrible time blogging with the Google Blogger and not having a proper app to blog from my phone iPad.

Here is Phoenix Hunter at anchor in Pruth Bay last August. It is quite foggy in the Central Coast in August. We were on our way south. We spent a couple of nights in Pruth Bay.