Sushi at Calvert Island

June 29th (Saturday)
Today was the first time we have had to charge our boat batteries. It was the first time that we have either not been on the move to charge while underway, or have not gotten enough sun in the last few days to keep our batteries topped up. We don't need much sun, but we had not gotten enough. As such it was a noisy morning, and we made water as well.
It was also cloudy with a few sunny periods in the afternoon, and actually quite warm and a bit muggy. 
Afterwards, we packed a picnic lunch, and headed to a beach. We got a beach fire going just for the fun of it. Even when it is warm out, it is sometimes nice to have a fire. The only annoying thing was that the beach was on such a gentle slope that since the tide was going out, we had to constantly go and send the tender out further so it would not become high and dry. This would definitely have been a beach where it would have been nice to have had the wheels for the transom of our tender so that we could have just left it on the sand, and then easily picked up the bow and rolled the boat to the water.
Back at home, we were tidied up, and decided to make Sushi California Rolls for dinner. This had been a meal we had planned to have more often, however, when we left Vancouver we forgot to get sushi rice. This was very disappointing. Recently we opened a bag of rice that we had, and when we cooked it we decided it might work as a substitute. We made four rolls filled with a Rock crab and mayo mix, with the last of a Dawson’s Landing cucumber, and we also tried some fresh sea asparagus in them, which turned out to be really good. They were very good, and could have been even better with proper sushi rice, but they were great nonetheless. We had them with some fried fish for a delicious meal! 
Homemade California Suskhi Rolls

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