We woke to another flat calm day in Montague but wanted to push onto Ganges today.  Only an hour away Ganges is a touristy town with a few more shops and we needed to start reengaging with society again. After an uneventful one hour hop we pulled into the bay and spent sometime finding somewhere we could drop the hook as there were far more boats on mooring bouys than we last remembered. We eventually found somehwere though that allowed us to at least put out moderate scope on the anchor chain  - still only 80 feet but we thought just enough as generally Ganges is well sheltered.

As soon as we were comfortable, even though we were quite hemmed in by other yachts and a huge tug (clearly someones 'passion project'), we headed into town in glorious calm and sunny weather.  After a brief walk around town we decided that it was time for lunch and selected the Oyster Catcher to treat ourselves.  Their Apricole Pizza and ceasar salad provided incredibly tasty sustenance washed down with a ceaser (drink!) and cider.  Replete, we headed back to the boat and settled down for a quiet afernoon, 

Around 4 I decided to try and clean the boats hull from the dinghy which proved very doable (if requiring some contortion) and then, around 6, as I was tidying up, the wind swung through about 180 degrees and started to get breezy with a very hot wind from the shore.  As I was preparing to put the dinghy away one of our neighbours started paddling past into the breeze - their outboard had packed up and they were making an attempt to get to shore by paddle power; not practical in the wind that was blowing up so we called over and offered them a tow.  When we got back tot he boat the wind had risen and was now pretty steady around 10 - 15 knots.  I wasn't too happy with this as we really weren't well situated to handle a blow.  We seemed to be holding though so hung on (bad choice!) By 10pm the wind was now plowing steadily 23- 25 knots with gusts over 30.  Neither Heidi or I could sleep so we started doing anchor watch in the cockpit together so we were ready in case the anchor broke free.  Thankfully around 11:30 the wind abated and so we could finally turn in, feeling a bit frazzled. Early the next morning the wind blew up again from the opposite direction so I got up and sat in the cockpit for an hour making sure that the dramatic swing didn't unseat the anchor but things settled down and I was soon back asleep.