An Easy Day at Calvert
November 25th (Monday)
In the morning, as the sun was rising, the sky was clear with little drifting clouds catching the light from the sun. It was two degrees in our cockpit. About a half an hour later the sky was dark, and although we had turned our lights off inside, we now turned them back on. It began to rain; two degrees and raining was not very motivating weather. We had a good, long Spanish session with cups of tea as the rain showers continued, interspersed briefly by sunny breaks and rainbows. There has been at least one rainbow here almost every day since we got here.
In the afternoon, the rain stopped and the sky became more reliably clear. We headed out in Kiki to set out our Prawn traps. We had been crabbing since we got to Pruth Bay, and on the way out we pulled up our last crab trap to put it away. We had not set our prawn traps earlier because of the strong winds, so this afternoon was a good opportunity. The wind, while planing in the tender, was quite cold, and we were wearing our winter gloves and all bundled up to stay warm.
At about a half an hour before sunset we pulled up to the Hakai dock, and walked to West beach where we enjoyed a lovely evening walk along the low-tide line. We explored around the corner to the north end of West Beach onto a lovely rocky beach, but we turned back because it was starting to get dark. From the far end of West Beach we got a lovely view of Mt Buxton, which was covered in fresh snow from the rain and hail showers of the previous night.
We had been given permission by the caretakers of the Hakai Institute to take some vegetables out of the garden, so on our way home we picked a bouquet of kale from the many flourishing kale plants around the property. It was lovely to have fresh kale with our leftover fish-and-crab cakes and one half of a fresh crab each.
Wow, fresh vegetables, what a treat.
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