June 27, 2005 Long Bay to Surprise Cove Day 119
We had the slowest morning imaginable today. We played dominoes, drank tea, and chopped up a huge pile of potatoes, onions and garlic. Our domino games have gotten extremely heated as I am a much better player now. Ryan is still really good at computing fast which dominoes I might have though, and still holds the upper hand. By 1430 we ate breakfast, a huge pile of hashbrowns with lots of spice and our last egg cracked into the middle of it. We were so full afterwards that we had to play a few more rounds before we set off for the day. Now we are anchored in a small nook behind a few islets in Surprise Cove. We rowed around for a bit before the bugs came out, and found the best wildflowers of the trip so far. In the marshy shores of the back lagoon we found many patches of purple iris, monkeyflower, daisies, some kind of red inside-out flower that looks like a cross between a lily flower and an orchid, and many brown Kamchatka lillies. The Kamchatka lily smells like used, wet toilet paper. Somehow despite our “food shortage” Ryan managed to make the most excellent dinner by frying linguini spaghetti and adding various sauces and spices to it. It was as good as anything you could buy at the co-op!
