Trip Day 4

September 26th, woke right at first light, around 6. It is cold in the boat so started the heater and put it on high!  Bundled up in a flannel shirt and down vest. Extremes of weather here, one day swimming the next day wearing winter clothes! Low 40's this morning. Mid-50's later today.

Lit up the oven after mixing up my coffee cake mix. Put it in the oven to bake and got coffee water boiling for the French press. Had fresh hot coffee cake and coffee for the wake up, reading, and study time. Around 9 I began to make breakfast, just cereal and toast. 

Got my charts ready, completed this log, got the audio CD ready to go for the trip over to Anderson Bay, but now it is raining AGAIN!  I will have to hold off my departure from Marion Bay until it stops.  Don’t want to get wet getting the skiff tied on the stern and releasing the mooring lines.  I’ll wait awhile to see if it will stop. May have to put on the wet gear to depart, we’ll see?

Yep, had to put on my heavy weather gear, including rubber boots! Pushed the skiff off the shore and tied it to the stern of the boat, then untied the two mooring lines and bow line, and loaded the gangway plank. Backed away about 11:30 am.  Cloudy and rainy.  Just generally bad weather!  I followed the GPS map display through the Kempton Channel and saw one other boat maneuvering around a boat site, not sure what they were doing? My audio book stopped and it got quiet for some time so I finally put on some music to listen to as I motored along.

Marion Bay to Anderson Bay - Rainy Lake East Map
(Day 4 -Track in red)

Marion Bay to Anderson Bay-Actual Satellite Track 11.4 nm (Ave. 3.7 kts, Max 5.2 kts)

(NOTE: All photos and charts can be clicked on to enlarge)

Later I observed another houseboat backing out of the Anderson Bay site but decided to try for another site further around the corner that was more protected, near the trail head.  However, after motoring around I decided it was not a developed site but one people could use if they wanted to (note excursion on track above). I chose not to and went back to the Anderson site and tied up about 1:30 pm.  Still raining!

Pebble Beach at Anderson Bay Site - Rainy Day

Good thing I brought my heavy weather gear because it got used both leaving and arriving today! The shore here is all small stones. Got secured and tied the skiff ashore to keep things quiet tonight.

Got the heater going again and had a snack of Korean jerky, some cashews, and water followed by red wine and chocolates.  Listened to some music and started to prepare dinner ingredients. Today I’m making my friend's (Art Kidd) corn bread with chili and a cold beer.  I pre-mixed the dry ingredients before leaving home so I just had to add the liquid stuff and bake the muffins.  Around 3 pm I lit the oven and began baking muffins.  Put the chili on and got that ready so when the muffins were done was all good to go! Great mix of chili with fresh hot muffins!  Desert was the usual.

Still raining!! Washed dishes and listened to my audio book for awhile and the rain stopped or at least was very light. Decided to take a walk up the rock face to the south to see if I could find the trail that I think connects to this site.  Took a few pictures but it was still misting.  Got a bit wet trying to walk through the bushes and never did find the trail.  I will try again tomorrow.  Walked back and spent an hour reading the book by Volk. Still raining!  But, it is supposed to dry out tomorrow. I hope so since I plan to hike the trail.  6:15 pm and getting dark already.  I will likely hit the sack early since I don’t think the upper deck fire ring is on the agenda for this eve!

Rock face was extensive, searched all over for trail but to no avail!

Indicative of the whole day - Mostly stuck inside!