The Benjamin Islands are the most unusual landform I have ever seen.  It is huge pink granite.  Sometimes all that you see is one huge, high rock!  A few pine trees have managed to find purchase.  But it is stark and stunning.  We all stayed put the next day.  It was so obvious that we weren't going to sail that day, it was never discussed.  We hiked and slept and talked and swam.

 We met some interesting sailors.  We met some generous and loving Canadians.  One church group had just finished a service and invited us to use their facilities while they all went off to somewhere else.  They left their church hall open to us.  It's never locked anyway.  We were invited back the next day for sailboat races around their island.  We had to decline the race.

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