Ten or twelve days ago, before our rendezvous with Trav and Barb at Westscott Bay, Trav popped something in his knee, and has been having pain and swelling since then. Neither the pain nor the swelling had subsided, so Trav decided to have it checked. A few blocks from the marina at the shopping mall is a walk-in clinic, situated between the grocery store and the liquor store. We all walked up to the clinic, and Trav was in to see a doctor within 15 or 20 minutes. The doctor suspected a hairline fracture in the kneecap or leg bone where it meets the knee, and sent Trav off to an X-ray lab to see if indeed that was the case. While Trav and Barb headed off via taxi to the lab, Erin and I returned to the boat for the rest of the morning. After the X-rays were taken, they had to be viewed by a radiologist, who would send his findings back to the clinic. This wasn't quite as fast a process, so Trav and Barb taxied back to the mall and we met them there for lunch and story telling. Trav and Barb returned afterwards to the clinic to get the report. The good news is that no fracture was visible. More rest, ice and elevation are the orders of the day.
We kept ourselves busy throughout the day relaxing and doing mostly nothing. The weather is nice, and the forecast is for it to continue. I removed the windows from the bridge area so we could get some fresh air up there while the top provides some shade.
The refrigerator still has a few bags of Dungeness crab from our initial catch in Westscott Bay, so we dined yet again on crab. The evening activity was a continuation of last night's domino game over on the Bar-T-Na, along with good conversation.
Tomorrow we'll do more of the same. In the evening we plan on heading out across the bay in Trav's dinghy to Protection Island, where we'll visit the Dinghy Dock Pub and dine on their world famous (okay, at least locally famous) fish 'n' chips.
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