And so it begins

Well, Mandy is on her way on the long road back to Wisconsin, marking the beginning of two or three or four weeks of complicated travel, moorage, and provisioning arrangements we are making to bounce back and forth between here and the States on various business and personal trips.

I am anchored out here on my own for a bit in False Creek, in Vancouver, enjoying the heat and the sunshine, if not all the other people out enjoying the heat and the sunshine. Despite efforts the city has made to clear out various derelict and "permanent" residents, it's pretty crowded in the outer parts of the Creek (note: not really a creek). In the inner basin, which was blocked off entirely for the Olympics (being adjacent to the Olympic Village) things look a little better, but that's on the other side of a bridge that is too low for us to pass, and out here, it doesn't look like there is a lot of compliance with the 14 day maximum occupancy rule. I could be wrong, some of these tubs that look like they haven't moved in ages may go out every other week, but it sure doesn't look like it.

So, anyway, that's mostly me grousing about getting a somewhat shoddy spot among the few allowable anchorages left in the outer area. Really, it's not so terrible... it is pretty secure here, and while there are a lot of wakes, generally people seem pretty good about keeping below the 10km/hr limit, so it's tolerable.

I don't have a lot going on here and not enough time between now and my own imminent departure to start with much, so I am cleaning and airing out the boat... projects much more easily done with only one person aboard. I went ashore and took a walk over to Granville Island this afternoon and explored Leg-in-Boot Square on the south side of False Creek. There are two grocery stores near there, a good find for us as we have always had trouble provisioning here. There's a neat park nearby also, which I didn't know was there, and Mandy told me that she quite enjoyed her walk to the train station through the former Olympic Village earlier. It seems clear that we have barely scratched the surface of things to see and do here... but although I would love to be able to be in two places at once, we're jumping around so much I fear there will be little time to explore while the boat is in this area.