August 15th, 2010 Sunday, pirate parade

We got up pretty early to get stuff done by noon,"Tide time." (I like that clock). I took the laundry, the laptop, the camera, the ipod, and the VHF. I plugged everything in to charge, down-loaded the pix, checked e-mails, (mostly junk), jumped on face book for a few, and posted a blog. Oh, and plugged the dead phones in, in the car. It was just after 11 when the last dryer stopped, only to find the whites still were as wet as they were an hour ago!!! I put in another $2.00 and packed everything up and headed back to the boat.   The Captain had almost everything wrapped up, Zipper tow ready, water, port-a-potty dumped, beer stocked and on ice, gas, and everything stowed. I dumped the laundry in "the hole", grabbed the kids for a last potty, and grabbed the rest of the laundry on my way back, and the Captain ran to Safeway to see if his coffee mug was still on the ice box. The clothes were dry and his cup was still there, and we were headed out of the marina at 12:07, ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE!!!  It was like a pirate parade. I swear there were at least a dozen of us headed out at the same time. There were only 2 or 3 power boats. It's funny how everyone wanted to hit the same tide as us. Sailors are crazy about their tides..   So we headed out Guemes Channel towards Rosario Strait. Everyone  started scattering in different directions, it was pretty cool. We decided to go south in Rosario Strait down to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, around Lopez Island, and... we hadn't made our minds up if we wanted to go through Cattle Pass again or keep going around San Juan Island up to Stuart Island. 

  There were a couple of bays that we hadn't checked out yet, so we decided to check them out on our way by. We stopped by Watmough Bay, and I think we found another favorite spot. It has a fabulous beach, protection most of the way around, and it is a long shallow beach, so the water is warm-er. We had so much fun wandering around. The kids had fun running around too. Red Dog swam for a stick a couple of times and Roxi almost followed him. We definitely will be back to this one!!!  Chef Shine made yummy tri-tip and garlic potatoes. mmm What a sunset..