B.C. Day 2008 has come and gone, made the most of the nice weather and hiked to the top of Mt. Gardner doing both south and north summit via the Skid Trail. Lots of people up there, parking lot at the head of the trail was full and cars parked down below as well, but only saw a handful of them myself by taking the long route to the top. Will upload some pics to flickr soon.
Over the weekend the local fireman had their annual “Dock Dance“, had a ticket but ended up not going…waking up from a quick nap after supper and going outside for a smoke, the warm up band was already in full swing and it was *loud*. And it was also quite chilly way up there at the top of the island, so stayed put and watched the fireworks instead, which was nice too being able to look down at them from the top and no ringing ears in the morning.
A BBC day today, getting warmer finally and into the dog days of summer with the mercury getting to 32 (90F) in the shade by mid-afternoon. Feels real good to me, the decade spent in Arizona has me spoiled for warm weather and don’t mind sweating at all. Got lucky coming back to the Snug Cove too, a nice spot in the shade to cool off the van.
The dock dance was a blast, but the first (warm up) band was the best of the two IMNSHO.
The second band and main attraction (as advertised at least) was a couple of magnitudes louder than the first.
I didn’t stick around for long after they got going. Tunes all sounded the same. Decibels are no way to compensate for monotony.