up and ‘dot . The d dew and I had to vi _ On the way ‘back to the - sailboat I. paused | ‘over the». gars, intent on savouring the’ belov quietness. . The - _. dinghy. ghosted. along” for a- . few seconds then came to.a- " stop. All was quiet except... ‘inflatable --. es 23 * < trickling: through the. filter I ‘took the : forthe: ‘splash. of the water © toe et my. mornin - “from® the” ‘oars. It. Was - ‘high Slack water; and: ; even the “seagulls were ‘motionless, = ‘congregated — - around a rock . at the. en- trance to the bay. ” ‘Travelling alone; without eo - children or crew, Mary and I... while: I's “had used the bad weather as — the -anch “an excuse to stay at anchor. stowed the for: an. extra, day. It was. a. baad aro | the. hook. off: : ly g¢ “requires two. people, ‘but this morning it was so quiet that I" it fine. Fre “Jet Mary sleep’ and hoisted . the ‘bottom: by. myself. The boat; remained. . the. southeasterly, — : > owith. oversre ~~ the. bay from the wind. In ‘places: their boughs ‘reach . down to. the ‘surface’ of. the swaters Serra ringed. ve ens that. Bae ta oe At high t tide the cate Sy ate. - - barge that Ii 4199 Lonsdale Avenue, © North Vancouver, B.C... ‘V7M 2H4 . - OFFICE/NEWS | (604) 980-0511 CLASSIFIED : ‘CIRCULATION . 986-1337 Gon Cnet Revere a comme Publisher . | Peter Speck. _ Associate Publisher Bob Graham . - Editor-in-Chief -~Noolt Wright. _ Managing Editor _ _ Andy Fraser. News Editor Chris Lioyd Photos - Ellsworth Dickson — Adveartising Director Eric Cardwell Trafile Manager Donna Champion Classified. Berni Hilliard Circulation - ¥vonne Chapman Administration Barbara Haywood © Accounts Sylvia Sorenson North Shore News, foun- dod in 1969 as an Indepen- dent community newspapor * and ‘qualified under Sched- ule 111, Part 111, Para- ; graph 111 of the Excise Tax Act, Is published cach Wodhnesday and Sunday by the North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North— Shore. Second Clase--Mail Rogistration Number 3885. VERIFIED CIRCULATION _ 47,001 Entire contents © 1078 North Shore Freo Press . Ltd, All rights reserved. — denting the . to dissipate. into ‘the ‘water. See SRNR ee Sra nesnes: ‘and the: noicec s diminis 2 CREA VuLewe. Bane Jervis Inlet. a “The “Gay : -tree-clad alive | with jts \ rays.” ' autopilot was working - fora ~ - and I. took -ad- | . vantage of it to go below and Z ‘change: - ‘pour the. coffee. ‘AfterI had taken. a cup ‘to. | Mary i in the aft cabin I went: back to the wheelhouse. | - Autopilots are fine, but our “Ors” had veloped | ‘a syndrome | ‘that ‘borders on - suicidal and I ‘like. to: be. 7 where I'can see if he decides to steer into the rocks. By the time we had finished our coffee and Mary was making _ breakfast we were. well into | the fjord, heading up 10 Princess Louisa Inlet, about : a day's motoring away. TRAVELLING ALONE As we hod breakfast: off. our laps in the cockpit we. travelling — -talke about. alone, with. just the two of us. We decided that it. really: ‘wasn’t that bad. There might be fewer people to help run | ut there were also. fewer people to feed, and to | clean up after. ‘Consequently, ; “the boat, there was more time to. do the many things that: cover ‘the pages, ‘of. my) ‘pro | worked on. heed Ofer brenkfast,, getting sunburned in: the process, and Mary read and cooked for the two of. us. she was getting to. herself, and how pleasant it was, | Jervis Inlet narrow body of water -in- $.C. const, two : ee through the other ‘boats @ and saumdad: the” ‘rock: Imtes was “unfolding, | slorieasty Petals of morning ' Cloud were ‘burning: off: with. “the sun, and high up on the: ‘slopes of the”; Mountains: the. greens. ‘came’ is The giants’ is a. Jong ‘came into view. I finished © ‘my deck ‘project. and busied myself. ‘with something: else while: Mary sunbathed,. and, 7 Py late afternoon we were at Pass ¢ andi into the nen i -the channel. : ‘A. half’ hour ‘about: F later and we were ‘around the = next point. on. oe ey. uP shelf ora ledge. ‘The walls. go. up and up and. up, eventually sloping. - ‘out into all. kinds of won-_ drous ‘places’ -- some: bright ae Some: green” — ‘with trees, some winte with oa snow. with flowers, | We spotted a a ‘structure’ : . resembling a ‘giant eggshell, somewhat. the» worse’. for wear, at the bottom of a rock. Slide about half-way. up the — hillside. It. appeared to be. hollow. I examined it with. Le binoculars: fora: long. time. . and. finally. came to the. ” conclusion that it was a large that was — melting away slowly. It was .. mass ,.of “snow: covered with a heavy ea ‘of gravel, ‘giving it'a grey. textured coat, and it lay at. the bottom of the slide like a forgotten Coat’ of chais mail. IDLE DRIFTING “There ‘were ‘many * waterfalls. there. In places ‘the falls decended directly into the sea and the roar of. falling water created a ‘deep ‘fich splashing. harmony that , Soothed me. She: remarked on how much time . We shut off the: eng ine in the middle of the in ot and: drifted idly for # long time. I Jay on the deck shading: my eyes, with my hat: and) fr time, to ‘time peered through . _ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 mene & ‘Travelling alone ‘that