Saturday, September 20
After a tranquil night, a frisky wind decided to pay a visit to Ganges Harbour on Saturday morning, just as Walt and I were preparing to take Coracle to the harbor’s dinghy dock. We loaded ourselves and two shopping bags into the dinghy as playful wavelets bounded about Braesail’s hull, and our short ride to the crowded dock was bouncy and splashy! With Coracle tied to the dock, Walt and I came ashore in central Ganges and paid a visit to Mouat’s Home Hardware, a very-well-known and very-well-stocked general store. Here, we were able, at last, to procure a corkscrew, and a few other small items, before making our way to the storied Saturday Market in the Park, passing the Tree House Restaurant, built around a large tree, as we walked.
We had a wonderful wander through the many stalls and displays of fresh local fruit and vegetables, wines and spirits, cheeses, clothing, and arts and crafts, enjoying free samples and making a few purchases of salad greens, heirloom tomatoes, two delicious varieties of grapes, Haskap (honeyberry or blue honeysuckle, a “superfood”) gin, and one of a wide variety of goat cheeses.
We next made our way to a bakery to pick up a large loaf of sour rye bread, together with two filled croissants on which to lunch, and before returning to Coracle with our purchases, we stopped into a delightful bookstore to browse and read a little from a guide to hot springs of western Canada, which we decided to buy.
The wind had relaxed a little by the time we left the dock, and so we toured the harbor area in Coracle, enjoying looking at the houses on the shores and the boats on the water, and found a good route to take to the dock on Sunday morning (we planned to walk to the local Anglican church for their 10 am Eucharist). Following our exploration, we spent a restful afternoon in our usual ways, Walt prepared an excellent seafood dinner, we watched sailing videos, we took hot showers, and we went to bed as the welcome sounds of long-predicted and much-needed raindrops began to reach our ears.
Braesail - A grand yacht in the Salish Sea 