BOUNDARY CREEK MARINA
If you look at the aerial view of our marina, you will see (in the upper right area of the photo) a large parking lot. That lot is used by some of us, but mostly by casual boaters launching and pulling their boats on the weekends. Our boat is quite close to that lot. It's the second boat in, on the big elbow bend in the creek.
So we have a very good view of the usually empty and serene parking lot and boat launch. But come the weekend it becomes very entertaining. We get to watch the endless array of boating errors right outside our back door.
We get to sit there, with our coffee in the morning, and watch boats launched with a bowline that is far too short and slips out of someones hands and the unmanned boat is now floating loose in the harbour. Or all of the myriad of boats that wont start and the paddling, that must then ensue. That is, if they remembered to bring paddles.
Which this one didn't and had to borrow a kayak paddle from Donna Hardy of JADIA (just in the nick of time before it hit their boat). Then of course there is always the forgotten boat plug and the inevitable panic and hilarity that follows that. Then in the evening we get to sit on our back deck with a drink and watch the sunburned and exhausted boaters reverse the earlier processes. Lining up to pull their boats.
We get to sit there, with our coffee in the morning, and watch boats launched with a bowline that is far too short and slips out of someones hands and the unmanned boat is now floating loose in the harbour. Or all of the myriad of boats that wont start and the paddling, that must then ensue. That is, if they remembered to bring paddles.
Which this one didn't and had to borrow a kayak paddle from Donna Hardy of JADIA (just in the nick of time before it hit their boat). Then of course there is always the forgotten boat plug and the inevitable panic and hilarity that follows that. Then in the evening we get to sit on our back deck with a drink and watch the sunburned and exhausted boaters reverse the earlier processes. Lining up to pull their boats.
THE LONG WEEKENDS, OF COURSE, ARE THAT TIMES TEN!
