Brisky goes ashore

Brisky and Trooper were very exited that they were able to go ashore after two whole days on the boat. We went ashore at the Duncanby Lodge & Marina to get bait and fuel. There's was so much for them to see and do. 

First, they spent some time just smelling the flowers. Brisky loves flowers, and is always on the lookout for ones with a heavenly smell and bright colours. Sometimes he even eats them when nobody is looking but he has to be careful because some of them can make him very sick. 

Trooper likes flowers too and can often be seen smelling one flower after another. However, his reason for smelling them is quite different. Trooper has such a sensitive nose that he can actually smell bees and can smell whether the bee is from a hive that has lots of honey in it or not. If he smells a good honey bee, he uses his good sight to watch where the bee flies and sometimes can show his best friend, Brisky, where he can find some fresh honey. There were no honey bees in the flowers at Duncanby Lodge though, so this time he just enjoyed their bright colours and nice smells. 

After the flowers, they watched the fishing guides cleaning and preparing the fish. They were very fast at what they were doing and both Brisky and Trooper were very impressed at how carefully they treated the fish. The laughed and joked with each other while they were working and it made Trooper wish he was a fishing guide. He said "I would love to have a job where I could watch the rod tips all day long and tell them when there's a fish in the line". Brisky said "I think it would be boring unless I was able to eat the fish whenever I wanted to". 

Then Brisky and Trooper walked around and spoke to the nice people who worked there and some of the visitors who were there fishing and enjoying the beautiful surroundings. What a nice place to have a vacation!

They didn't want to leave and neither did we. 

Duncanby Lodge is a jewel on our beautiful west coast.  It was hard to say goodbye to the people there but we had to leave and Brisky and Trooper sadly waved goodbye to all their new friends as we drove the boat away to do some more fishing.