{"id":24433,"date":"2018-09-29T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=24433"},"modified":"2018-09-30T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T01:01:13","slug":"at-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=24433","title":{"rendered":"At Anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are done voyaging for the day. The anchor lies deep below the boat, a heavy chain descends from the bow into the dark depths. Switched off, the steady thrumming of the engine is silenced after a long day.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_24451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24451\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=24451\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24451\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CJ37-15-18253-DC-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Nordic Quest Under Aurora at Helm Bay\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24451\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nordic Quest Under Aurora at Helm Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>The boat floats upon dark still water, the deep green of the spruce forest surrounds the little cove we selected for this night&#8217;s anchorage. Otters play in the bight across the cove, the call of a loon echoes over the water.<\/p>\n<p>Cheery lights spill from the salon, inside dinner is eaten, the dishes are done. It is just a bit to early to retire to the bunks below. Instead cards are scattered about a cribbage board, the game too close to call.<\/p>\n<p>A radio recites a weather forecast, charts are consulted, a plan a sketched out for the next day. Down this channel, across that passage, a stop the hot springs, and a couple possibilities for the next anchorage are plotted.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will bring another day of voyaging, there are hundreds of miles to go before Bellingham, a journey along the Inside Passage is not yet done. We have plotted the next day&#8217;s course. After we pull the crab pots we again turn south, tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are done voyaging for the day. The anchor lies deep below the boat, a heavy chain descends from the bow into the dark depths. Switched off, the steady thrumming of the engine is silenced after a long day. The boat floats upon dark still water, the deep green of the spruce forest surrounds the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=24433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At Anchor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402,2569,20],"tags":[2107,2570,199,1827],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24636,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions\/24636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}