Again, way to lazy to update daily. It's amazing how days disappear. Something to do with never getting up before 10am. Well that's normal for me on holiday but something about hosting gets me up early. Yes very early. Possibly 09.30am !
Left Friday Harbor late as we bumped in to some friends from Seattle on the dock. They came over for a beer and look around the boat. And we had a pretty nice seafood feast for Afra's Birthday. I made an awesome, if I do say so myself, cioppino with squid, clams, spot shrimp and scallops..
Towed the dinghy again so a nice slow cruise over to Jones. It was beautiful. Warm night and the sun going down. Hit auto pilot and both of us sat out on the bow while the boat did its thing.
Jones island is and old favourite. We took our 26 footer there years ago and anchored in the bay while the kids camped on the bluff. We had a silly little blow up boat as a tender and had to row the dog in all night as he'd been drinking sea water all day. Good memories. Apart from the dog shuttle. There is a north and South Bay and the north side has a small dock it's a small island with nothing but a few camping spots, hiking trails and very tame wild deer everywhere. You can walk from south to north. In 5 minutes but a hike around the island is probably a couple or three miles. We did that the next morning.
We chose the north side. Dropped anchor as we are too big for the buoys these days and just messed around with the dog on the beach. It was super tranquil and the bay was flat. That is until 1am when the wind came in and blew hard. Waves slapped the boat all night rocked and rolled us. It was hard to sleep and I worried about slipping anchor. Got up twice to check but he GPS showed me bang on the middle of my anchor swing alarm. All good, but always nerve racking especially with rocks not far away either side.
Left late morning for Sucia. I prepared myself with nice plate of cholesterol, yes that is black pudding…