It was
interesting how different it is with more or less people on board. This
particular morning, not a sound could be heard and I really didn’t want to get
up. But, I was concerned that the new Navigator boat would leave and we would
miss our opportunity to get their contact information. Armed with our new touch
cards to notify people of our organization and rendezvous, Dad and I went off
to introduce ourselves. We visited with the folks on the 4 EVVA and then
wandered farther down the dock to Dan and Mimi’s boat. They are delightful
people. They told us about a bear
sanctuary that we floated right past near Wrangell. We hung around as long as
we should holding dearly to our ability to talk on the phone and then sadly departed
Shearwater towards Dawson’s landing.
We selected
Lama Passage for our course because last time we were in the area we went
through Gun Boat Passage. Along the way, Dad and I changed our course and went
exploring up Fish Egg Inlet. It is amazing how many things we missed on our way
up. I’m certain that we could spend a considerable amount of time exploring
this whole area.
We arrived
in Dawson’s landing to wind and current and I got a 9.5 on my docking score –
with lots of people watching. It was really fun to approach a challenging task
and not be scared. I felt that I had received plenty of training and I knew
from my experience how the boat was going to react and I could control the
situation and I could be successful. I was confident through the whole docking
execution. Every day at work employees should experience the same. My only
disappointment in the whole thing was that after I landed I wanted to share my
success with Wendy and my phone wouldn’t work.
We had a
fabulous dinner. I had a cookbook that has hundreds of ways to cook halibut and
I was going through it when I saw one recipe for Au gratin halibut and one for
barbequed halibut. Dad had been talking about barbequing a salmon which I
hadn’t done and I had Au gratin potatoes that I could fix for a dinner. One of
the key ingredients was chili sauce, which we had onboard so I was off and
running. I made the barbeque sauce from scratch and grilled halibut with the
barbeque sauce, combined it with Au gratin potatoes and steamed broccoli. It
was delicious and in the end there wasn’t a drop of anything left.
After dinner
we tried to get on the internet, which turned out to be our biggest challenge
of the day. We watched as our one bar came and went. We also watched a sleek
black cat walk up the dock and onto the boat across the dock from us. He
explored the boat and then left.
Dawson’s
Landing is a village of several float houses that lashed together. They, unlike
other float house villages in the area operate year round. Reportedly a sixty
two pound salmon was caught just the day before out in front of the area. We
were one of ten boats on the dock and were told that it was the busiest that
they had been all year.
Before we
went to bed both Becca and I had showers and Becca braided my hair. I’m so over
due for a color and hair cut that the only thing I can do with my hair is put
it in a pony tail. It was such a treat to get my bangs out of my eyes. It is
also note worthy that for the first time in 20 years I don’t have a single
artificial nail. I’ve lost them ALL. My finger tips were so sore that typing
had become a challenge.
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