Sunday, May 27, 2012

Vanessa in Rio






Ricardo Silveira Organ Trio

Ricardo Silveira - guitar
Vanessa Rodrigues - Hammond B3 organ
Rafael Barata - drums

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Telegraph Harbour Thetis Island BC

Here it is the Victoria Day long weekend.  We headed across to Thetis Island on Friday and it was excellent sailing almost all the way.  It was particularly good once we had crossed the Straight of Georgia with winds allowing us to close reach oct of the way until the wind died and we had to motor into the harbour itself.


Telegraph Harbour



View of the entry to the harbour


Terratima all by herself with all the power boats




The cafe.  Very nice place



The "cut" between Telegraph Harbour and 
Clam Bay at low tide




Starfish in the shallows of the "Cut"




Houses on the hill overlooking the harbour



Only 2 sailboats:  Terratima and a Benneteau



Telegraph Harbour Marina - deck...




...and front lawn


Gangway to the marina

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Sunny finally....

So out we came for the day...




Low tide - the pilings are very high




This boat tried getting into the marina but alas ran aground.  He managed to free
himself and is waiting a anchor for higher tide






John's boat and looking down the finger







Lots of rigging on sail boats -
floating hotel in the background




I made new Sunbrella winch covers




One broken and useless radar reflector must come down

COMPLETE THE STORY

 Hello all.  I must admit to being a bit reticente in completing the story of our trip to Mexico.  It is marred by an incident of mental hea...