Why travel agent will never get the best travel deals? It ‘s something that will always be against them. You need to book to win money and no provider wants to lower prices, while the command of travel agents for … Continue reading →
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Actually we already had our family Thanksgiving – November 2nd. Debs parents were leaving for their winter home in Arizona and we were getting ready to leave for Broulee. Amazing how much you have to pay for a turkey prior to the Thanksgiving sal…
We decided to pull over here, just North of Seabreeze Blvd. Bridge. Good holding with the Delta, 100′ of chain, 15-20 kt NW-N clocking over night to NE, but finally dropping to 15 kts. Nice evening on the hook, running the genny, heat, after the cold f…
Wednesday: We arrived at the boat about 14:00. We decided last night to stay another day to get everything together. It was a whirl wind trip; it seemed like we were going steady. Got doctored up for the next year at Mayo, …
Sunday dawned clear, cold and VERY windy. I had been planning for a week to head to Lake Mattamuskeet to see if the swan migration was in progress, but as I listened to the wind howling, I almost decided not to go. Then I remembered that I had been a northern gal WAY longer than […]
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Always Interesting on a Boat. We left Sylken Sea at St. Marys Boat Services, GA. Rocky, Terri & staff are good folks. A very good DYI yard if you are looking for one. Anyway, we are always in a rush (at least I am, type A). We are in the slin…
Many of you who follow this blog regularly know that I undertook a great many projects on Drift Away. What you don’t know is that I used this flowchart to figure out how to fix many things.Everybody should have a system.
Many of you who follow this blog regularly know that I undertook a great many projects on Drift Away. What you don’t know is that I used this flowchart to figure out how to fix many things.Everybody should have a system.
George and Gel are off the west coast this year but Kim, Peter, Lisa and Grandma Gerrick will be with us. Grandma Rossin is home bound but we will see her over the weekend . We have most of the … Continue reading →
It’s a short hop from Bellingham into the San Juan Islands, which is a good thing since we had some strong northerly wind and choppy conditions to deal with. We anchored off Lopez Island to hide from the wind, and had the anchorage all to ourselves (where is everybody – it’s not that cold, is it?). We had a great view of Mt. Baker in the Cascade Mountain range to the east…
…and we particularly enjoyed its many faces as the light changed. Dawn was my favorite look.
The winds settled down and we were due to get a cold snap. We had to hose the foredeck off with salt water to get rid of the thick layer of frost, and we got a laugh at the bird footprints in the frost on one of the deck boxes. It’s no fun to run around in the dinghy in the cold, so we decided to head to the marina at Friday Harbor for the two coldest nights. It was nice – we went to the movies, visited the knitting shop (where I found yarn and a vest pattern that I couldn’t resist), and walked around town. After two days, as it was starting to warm back up to normal temps (daytime in the mid-high 40’s) we ran around to the NW side of San Juan Island to visit the National Park site called English Camp.
This is where the English military established a camp for the 12 years when the ownership of the San Juan Islands was in dispute. The Americans had a camp on the south end of the island, and the two sides enjoyed each other’s company during the political dispute known as the Pig War. (The only fatality was a pig.)
We hiked up the mountain above English Camp, and had some fantastic views of the Olympic Mountains, the Gulf Islands, and Vancouver Island. If you look closely, ADVENTURES is the little dark speck at anchor just to the lower left of center in this photo.
After a long afternoon hiking and exploring the Camp, we decided to take it easy the next day so we took the dinghy around to Roche Harbor. Roche is a “resort”, though it was nice and quiet this time of the year. We strolled around the historic buildings and the old lime kilns, and we checked out the sculpture garden – a little too abstract for our tastes. We enjoyed a nice lunch there, and then bundled up for the dinghy ride back to the boat.
Our next stop will be nearby Orcas Island and Rosario Resort to celebrate Thanksgiving.
