Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Why I'm Not On Darcy...

Mostly because, contrary to popular opinion, I'm not an idiot.




This is what the beach looked like halfway out of the bay a little after 3:00pm. Looks kinda foggy, doesn't it? Looking the other way--out towards Baynes Channel and Haro Strait, there's Paula headed out into a wall of fog.



After we rounded the point by Flower Island, things got worse.



And worse.



Visibility was pretty bad--we couldn't see Jemmy Jones from Flower, for example--so I decided that Darcy wasn't in the cards today. It had been sunny and clear when I carried the boat to the beach, and fogged in by the time I got three days of gear loaded. It didn't clear until we got back to the beach [Hey, Frankie! Hi, Annette!]. The weather had made it clear; no trips today.
On the plus side, we did see this heron at the rock garden!



yeah, he's there. That stick with the spot of colour at the top. That's a heron, trust me....


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3 comments:

  1. This outing was a classic example of Responsive Weather.
    Everytime we had a thought about the weather, it responded. "Gee, it's sunny and bright" meant that in moments, a fogbank rolled in. "Ooh, it's getting pretty thick" found us two minutes later in a bubble of clear air surrounded by walls of fog. "Looks like it's burning off" was met with... well, you can figure it out.

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  2. Nice photos! And no you're no an idiot, more extreme adventure guy!

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