Exploring Discovery Bay
October 16th and 17th (Wednesday and Thursday) It was another rainy and windy couple of days. The rain, for the most part, was steady. We got a few breaks from time to time, but the next rain shower was never far away. We had a couple of rainbows, and the sun tried to break through, only to be covered over again by the next dark cloud. The wind was also ever present. The intensity came and went in gusts in the anchorage, and from what we heard from the VHF current-condition reports for lighthouse stations close by, we were quite well protected. The gusts still howled by, however, and the rain combined with the wind made it hard to go out and do anything. Each time that the sky looked like it might be clearing we went out. In one of the bays that we explored we saw a lot of male Surf Scoters. They were the first males we had seen. Inside our anchorage area it seems to be only females. The males are very pretty with distinctive black and white colours. Male Surf Sc...