Another lovely day but quite a bit of dew in the mornings so it is starting to feel like Fall. Mind you , according to the TV weather report, it was frosty and zero Celsius in Cochrane last night so I guess we are Ok here yet.
It really warms up nicely in the afternoons and is clear and sunny so we are not complaining .
Vivian fired up the washing machine this morning, we usually do that when we are at a marina with shore water and 50 Amp power but have not had that since we left Port Sidney so the laundry has been piling up. We have never tried the washer and dryer on the generator before but it seems to work fine and since we need to run the generator to recharge the batteries anyway we may as well make full use of the power.
Now that the water maker is finally working, we can also run that at the same time as the laundry does take a fair amount of water.
We need to be self sufficient for our trip to S.E. Alaska next year so it is good to get all the bugs ironed out now.
In the afternoon we took a dinghy ride to Madeira Park and a walk to the grocery store , drugstore and the local bookstore for a rake around. The drugstore was all out of Vivian’s medication so we will have to stay here till at least Tuesday till it arrives.
That is no hardship as we really like it here.
There was a live band playing in the parking lot today and lots of locals and tourists just sitting around enjoying it. Pender Harbour is apparently a pretty musical town with several small music festivals throughout the summer and Fall. They have a Chamber Music Festival, a Blues festival and a big Jazz festival later this month.
Later we toured around the harbour area checking out the boats and cottages and stopped for an ice cream at John Henry’s General store. The sign at the entrance reminds you that it is a ‘general “ store so not to look for anything "specific" ?? Fisherman’s humour!!
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