July 26 & 27. I had some gastrointestinal distress about 3am and spent about a half hour on the toilet……..disgorging. Did I get a bad shrimp or a bad bita spicy putenesca? Don’t know but I was able to get back to sleep and didn’t have any other gastrointestinal or related issues. We topped up our water tanks and departed Shearwater at 10:15am. There was little wind and mixed skys and in 4 hours we stopped for lunch, drifting just outside of Codville Lagoon. After lunch; we nicely anchored ( except my new electric windless anchor puller was making a worrisome squealing noise. We all then yaked to shore (Pi too) and took a 20 minute hike to a nearby lake on a rough boardwalked trail. Pi was on leash and pulling all the way there and most of the way back. This was a provincial marine park and there were “dog rules” and notices of wolves in the area. When we got back I made some online inquiries to the windless manufacturer in Italy concerning my windless issue. It was a calm clearish night with some Bailies on deck. The next morning it was mostly clear with a forecast of increasing cloudiness later in the day. We decided to pack a lunch and have a picnic and swim up at the lake. Pi was left on the boat; much to her verbal dissatisfaction……and also some dissatisfaction for the neighbouring anchored boats. We did not feel too guilty about her melodramatic howlings because we knew she had the attention span of a doorknob and that she would have forgotten all about us as soon as we were our of sight. We laid out our beach blanket on the beach and went in for a swim. It was surprisingly warm, I guess because the lake is quite shallow. When we came back to shore and started unpacking our packed lunch we noticed a movement nearby on the beach. I was a wolf coming slowly towards us. I think we were on it’s regular route, as there were lots of tracks on the beach. It came tentatively to within about 20 metres of us and then trotted into the woods behind us. Not to be seen again……by us anyways. The next day; July 28 was rainy all day. We just hunkered down in the boat for the day. No walk for Pi for a day and a half and she still would not use the “poop deck” even though we encouraged her to. After a couple of days of no appreciable sunshine the house batteries were getting low. I ran the generator for about three hours to bring the charge up.
