Morning Gift (282/365)

October 9, 2015 – A co-worker nudged me via email the other day and suggested I hop the first ferry to Nanaimo, where she would pick me up, for a quick trip out to one of the facilities I support on the outer coast.

I mulled it over, and given that my brother was heading home in the morning and I needed something to occupy me and get me back into motion, I agreed.

Nasty storms are approaching the coast and it’s the Friday before the long weekend so the ferries are overloaded and the home trip was looking to be potentially problematic, but it was good to do something productive.

I was the second person to walk on the ferry, but it ended up not being the usual quiet 6:20am ride I’m used to because of all the long weekend traffic.

Part way across the Strait the sky started to burn and looked like it was on fire. It was spectacular. I asked the couple at the table next to me if they would watch my computer while I went out to take a photo and I knew it had to be a great sunrise when even some of the ferry crew were out there in the rain taking photos.

I came back in and sat down, but then the sky changed again and was even more beautiful, so out I went again. The third time I said, out loud “It’s spectacular”, the woman next to me smiled and said “Off you go then”.

Mother Nature gave me a lovely gift for getting up early today, and the trip out the the facility was productive.