Day 1 - Feeling winey.

Notice dangerous blackberry vines.

I slept in until after 7, and by the time I woke up Dave had unpacked everything except my suitcase (hooray!). I unpacked and we drove both cars over to Hug Point, since we were hoping for a crowd for wine tasting open house this afternoon and needed as much parking as possible.  We left his car there and walked a little on the beach, but the tide was high and there wasn’t much walking available. So we drove my car back to the house and I took a kitchen knife and trimmed blackberry bushes to make the path down to the beach safe for guests.

The pass-through, from the north

THE SAND AND PATH REPORT

As reported in the previous paragraph, the path down to the beach is quite overgrown. The wooden bits are also feeling a bit rickety, and the path itself is deeply worn, so it is quite an obstacle course. The sand here is very, very low. The pass through to hug point on the north end is all rock and will probably be impassable even at low tide – although at low tide you can just go around it on the ocean side. To the south all the rocks are exposed in front of the cave. And the water trickle at Hug Point goes off to the north rather than flowing straight out.

We went to Warren House for lunch, and then came back to the house for open house with wine. Many people came – we had to do some car juggling but everyone had a good time with good wine. I’d set an intention to take lots of pictures and took none.

After everybody left, our plan was to go to Pelican Brewing for dinner but it was a zoo, so we went to Bill’s instead. Now we’re back at the house with a nice fire. We’re all pretty beat – maybe no games tonight.

Too tired to win at trouble. There's always tomorrow night.