Progress ...

I went down to the boat slip yesterday, and did some filming. I also received the key to the docks, which was kind of weird, being a really high-tech card-reader solution. The gates themselves are solid metal gates, and pretty impossible to get by. I didn't like that very much. At first the 'man in charge' down there was reluctant to give me a key at all, since I didn't have my boat out at the moment, and there 'really wasn't any place for me to be without a boat' according to him. That is very different from what was said when the docks were new, just 2 years ago, where it was said that the area should be kept open for the public, being a very nice place to walk, and fish and jump into the ocean. I guess they are afraid of theft and stuff like that, but it would be the simplest thing in the world, and probably smarter to do even without a gate, to get there with a boat. Oh, well. Oh, well, there goes the romantic notion of the friendly boating community ... As a member of the 'club' I will have my say, and I will speak for a more open and friendly attitude towards the public. People do have insurance, and it is surveilance and guarded by members all the time anyways ...

Anyways, when I was filming down there, it was very quiet, very slow, very grey, and in my opinion, very nice. The ocean has its own pulse, and there is lots of motion, life, and sounds if you just take the time to look and listen. Drops constantly dripping, boats slowly rolling in the water, birds making distant sounds ... and the clear water you only have in the winter... beautyful! On the bottom of the sea, lots of starfish! Hundreds, probably thousands! Pretty amazing. So even though it almost seems like everything is in a state of hibernation, which is also true about me, there is still life, and very much its own beauty!

The boat is hibernating! That is actually a pretty good word for how I feel like the state of the boat is right now. The problem is: will it wake up in the spring?