I got a big kick out of speeding across to the airport in the inflatable to drop my girlfriend Lalitha off and tying up at the “short term parking” dock, reading the sign at the dock and dutifully putting $5 in an envelope with the name of our skiff on it and then stuffing the envelope into a rusty old piece of pipe per the posted instructions. Bit different than dropping someone off at Vancouver International Airport!!
Read MoreSure enough, we had a lovely display that night that was quite visible through the downpour!! While we waited for the fireworks, we amused ourselves by recovering yellow rubber ducks by the dozens using one of our inflatables. The local chamber of commerce had staged a rubber duck race down the stream that runs through town early in the day and a lot of the “ducks” swept over, under and around the barrier that was supposed to collect them all.
Read MoreStarted today off with a “mystery dive” on a pinnacle just north of Green Islet lighthouse. There was a wee bit more current than I expected but the divers reported that the diving on the wall and tumbles on the backside of the pinnacle was excellent with loads of white plumose anemones and other typical pacific northwest life. Other divers wandered onto the flats and investigated under and around the large boulders with less success.
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