Sunday, June 30th

It rained most of the night and the day dawned pretty dismally – no rain, but heavy cloud cover and a wet cockpit.  After a while the skies cleared, we dried off the cockpit and started to feel like venturing out.  We went ashore and rode the “Bike the City” route around Burlington.  Had a late lunch ashore in the Skinny Pancake, and just as we finished it started raining again.  So we dashed back to Quinita and managed to arrive without getting wet.  It turned out to be a false alarm however – the rain didn’t appear, the skies brightened and we left the mooring, refueled with gas and dropped anchor south of the breakwater for a change.  We went for a swim, Ron dived on the anchor and was pleased to see it firmly buried.  Later we dinghied ashore for a meal at the “Shanty” – it was OK but nothing special.  We watched the last of a nice sunset, then noticed some ominous, dark clouds so returned to Quinita, just before the next batch of rain.