After last night's rain, everything was clean and dry this morning. The temp was a respectable 20C inside the boat at 0900. We called the water taxi shuttle to take us to shore. Jorge had offered our generator to try to the couple we had happy hour with last night as he was interested in purchasing one. There was also a fellow in the marina on a sailboat with a sewing machine and we had him stitch a couple of seams on the enclosure as the thread had deteriorated.

We checked out the marine store and then signed out two bikes to use. We first biked into the closest town, Galena, about 1.5 miles away. There we bought lunch and beer at a small market. It was a very small town and we decided to bike to the town in the other direction from the marina as it was bigger and we figured would have a larger grocery store. We were wrong! There was no grocery store, just a Dollar General which did offer frozen foods, cereals, canned goods, etc. but no fresh fruit or produce. And it was 3 miles in the opposite direction, once we got back to the marina. We did however find a hardware store that will refill our propane tank. (The second one has now run out.) So we did a total of about 10 miles by bike today, one speed - heavy, uphill, wind against us, both ways! Not really but it seemed that way. (Okay Karen, I could never bike as much as you do.) Tomorrow I might let Jorge bike the 6 miles to and from the hardware store for the propane while I do the 3 miles to and from the market get the fresh produce.

Biking back from lunch.

Overlooking the entrance to Georgetown Yacht Basin.

 

We got back to the boat just before 1800. Lynn and Sally (the happy hour couple from last night) pulled up to CS'ta Time in their kayak just as we arrived. We welcomed them aboard for . . . you guessed it . . . tonight's happy hour! They are leaving this anchorage tomorrow and we agreed to meet up with them in a couple of nights down the bay.

Dinner was bad frozen pizza from the Dollar General (by the name what more would you expect) but the beer was decent.