Belated Canada Day post

Rick and I were invited to participate in the Port Dover Canada Day Boat Parade on Zatarra. Here's Rick and Zatarra in their CD finery.

 

Paul and Bucky the Beaver hanging on for dear life.

We were representing the Long Point Bay Yacht Club whose membership are in the Harbour Marina.

Out of the marina and heading towards the lighthouse and entrance to the river.

We had to negotiate through the spectator boats clustered around the entrance.

It's an unofficial and therefor unorganized event so I don't know how they decided who would go first but there she is.

Commercial tugs,

pleasure tugs,

power boats and

sailboats

entertained the on water spectators.

Smallest boat but he made up for it with flags and enthusiasm.

Paul spotted a break in the queue and headed in

past the coast guard boat coming out.

Crowds lined both sides

and cheered as we pulled our "doughnut" and blew the horn, as is the tradition.

Exchanging "Happy Canada Day" with people on the pier, slaloming through the spectator boats and milling participant boats and heading back to the marina.

Paul did some victory laps up and down the various docks and then had a difficult time docking as the prop was restricted by masses of weeds. The marina cannot treat the weeds until a certain date. I believe it is something to do with fish spawning, but the weeds are terrible this year (warm, wet spring)

Rick and I helped "undress" Zatarra and then took Spellbound out for a lovely sail.

The following day I kayaked on a much calmer river.

Out for a couple of hours and all I saw was 2 people in a canoe and one family with a paddle board and kayaks....

and lots

and lots

of turtles.

I didn't go out to the harbour this time but turned at the Yacht Club and went up the Lynn River to the dam at Silver Lake, then turned back.

Remnants of the day before.