Day 216 Connected again.

Here's a scene from our walk around Stuart Island.

We're in Roche Harbor tied up to a dock nice and safe and sound.  They sure like getting money form visitor here.  Lunch--two hamburgers with fries and one Pepsi came to $25.00.  A load of wash is $3.50 for a half size load and the same for the drier for only 40 minutes of drying time.  That's normally just short of when the cloths are actually dry.  There is only one grocery store in town and while well stocked, it is about 50% more for everything than your local Safeway. 

We started the day in Prevost Harbor on Stuart Island and the Sun actually came out for the first time in a week.  Boy it was nice to finally see it again.  Having been living in Colorado for so long, we had learned to take it for granted.  Suddenly being surrounded by clouds and fog can be a real downer especially after being without it for a week.  It was so nice and warm on our skin.

We're heading back to Hudson Point to start on the continuing refit and repair.  We made a list for Sea Marine to redo since some systems have failed.  Plus a long list of things we have thought about that need repair.  We have already ordered some parts before we left and some

 should be in by the time we get back.

 Here's the plane that followed us into Deer Harbor the day before Thanksgiving.

The shoreline on Reid Harbor on the opposite side of Stuart Island from Prevost harbor.

We've found a much easier way to get the dingy on and off Zephyrs deck.  Bill left us a block and tackle to hoist the dingy using a small crane attached to the rigging on the starboard side.  We brought a small whisker pole that we had had on our last boat.  A "whisker pole" is normally used to hold a jib or genoa sail out away from a small boat when sailing downwind.  We attached it to the mast using the spinnaker pole attachment(that's what holds the big colorful sail out in front of the boat)  then hooked a halyard(rope that raised the sails) to the end of it along with the block and tackle.  We then attached the other end of the block and tackle to the dingy and hoisted her up and on board.  With this being said, now we will need to find a spinnaker pole for Zephyr as the whisker pole is a bit small for this job but at least it will work for the time being. 

Each island seems to have it's own personality.  While they are all in the same chain, each is slightly different from the trees to ferns to the leaves from the trees.