It was a fine day indeed yesterday, got up to 16c, with light breezes. It did clam down in the evening making it very uncomfortable up in the hills [flies you know].

The Northern Ranger limped in to port at 1450 hours, 2 hours 20 minutes late. I say limped just for the fact that; for the last several trips she seems to take forever to get from mid harbor to the dock. It is painfully slow to watch. It could be that the captain is new to the vessel and taking precautions, it could be that the engines or other controls are not functioning properly, it could be that the captain is operating to the rules of engagement, wonder what it could be?

Any way we took delivery of our 4x4, other wise known as a four wheeler or as a lot of people call them up here, a Honda, Honda being the first make of 4x4 to arrive in town years ago. Now, as well as Honda you have Yamaha, Kawasaki, BRP and Polaris etc.

Ours machine is what could be described as the ‘station wagon’ of 4x4’s [ours is green]. Just the right size engine to run around town, maybe haul some reasonable heavy loads and make it easier and faster to get Fran up into the hills for berry picking, while sticking to the trails all the time that is.

Funny thing too yesterday, the grandson made sure he stuck to me like glue. Came down to the dock with me, helped with sorting out the operating functions of the machine, riding around right proud on the back, he was a big help.
Needles to say the dip sticks that pass as crew on the boat could not unload the machine without damaging it. While attaching the slings to lift her off the tail light received minor damage.

Now I have to adapt from being a pedestrian to being a rider on the roads, at least at times as Siutik did not take to riding, only got yards down the road and she bailed on me. No fancy dandy riding for this lady.