For some reason I've always had this thing about taking bikes to Vashon Island and riding into town. Vashon to me is a little weird for access. There is of course your normal ferry service but as a boater I'm used to pulling up to a dock and wandering into town and it's normally close. But Vashon access is not so easy. There is a bay at the south end of the island called quartermaster harbor. Very protected. There is a state park dock on the south side of the harbor and it's a 7 mile ride to town. Or you can head deeper in at the town of Burton. There is a yacht club marina there, private no access, and a marina that is a little weird as they don't seem to monitor VHF and you have to call direct. Waggoner reports them as not being very accommodating. Not really the case…
So we checked out the dock, it was full and I didn't want to be on a busy dock back to back with boats. Especially with no shore power and annoying people with the gennie. And 7 miles I was feeling a bit lazy. So we headed rounded the point to Burton. Shallow bay with depths around 14 feet. Anchor set easily and we were all on our own. No other boats on anchor. Peaceful night.
In the morning called the marina and the harbormaster was an interesting chap, seemed to want to help but seemed to think it was very tricky to find a way to dock our tender. This is weird to me. Nearly all marinas have a dinghy dock and most if not nearly all are free. He went back and forth with options and finally offered me a slip for $20. Probably the most expensive slip I've had. 14ft tender for couple of hours. But whatever. So next had to load the bikes on the tender. Thought it might be tricky but it was a doodle…
They sat up front nicely. Easy on and off.
Harbor master met us and helped us unload. Didn't want to give us the gate code and told us to call him when we got back. Again a little weird but he did it all with a smile.
The ride into Vashon from there is 4 miles. Seemed easy. Man is there some hills. I'm getting old!
Vashon is a cool little town and it has seabreeze farm cafe which has awesome food. 
Was a great bike ride. A different adventure and glad we did it.
Left Vashon for a night at Bainbridge Island. Finally the smoke from the forest fires in BC are gone and we could at last see Seattle again. Really hard to get a shot of the Seattle cityscape at night but I tried. Anchoring in Eagle Harbor at Bainbridge always offers an awesome view of Seattle. 
Been to Bainbridge so much It's familiar ground. Booked a massage Sunday morning in town. Chilled and headed home. Nice weekend!
Oh and started screwing with the tender to add underwater lights just do fun. Somehow must have knocked a wire or have an old poor connection. Now my nav lights are dead on it. Have tinkered around trying to find which wire I messed up. No joy yet. I hate it when things like that happen.
Always something to fix….