August 19th, 2010, Thursday, cattle pss one more time

I woke up this morning a a panic. No Roxi! after further investigation, the Captain and HalfHitch were gone too. I looked overboard and zipper disappeared also. I looked on the table to find the 2-way radio laying there, and it was on. I picked it up and said "do you have my wienie?".... no answer... "hellooo, do you have my Roxi?" This time a laughing voice said "yes, I have her" He told me later that he didn't even hear me, because of the motor, Roxi was in his lap and he had the radio in his hoodie pocket, and she was doing the 'confused head cocking' thing. They had gone to shore early for potty. and didn't want to wake me. How sweet was that?? We were trying to decide what to do for our last couple days of vacation. We both decided that Sucia Island would be great but...

We thought that Stuart Island was fun but... So we decided that we should head through Cattle Pass one more time and spend the last couple of days in Watmough Bay. We wanted to catch the last of the outgoing tide through Cattle Pass. and the incoming tide to ride around the bottom of Lopez Island and into Rosario Straight.  O.K. We had to leave right now to hit Friday Harbor for the doodahs, and ice. It's a long haul to the other end of the islands. We decided to motor up Harney Channel, through the Wasp Passage, to cut through the Wasp Islands,an into the San Juan Channel to Friday Harbor. The place was a zoo. There wasn't enough room for us "28' end to end" to tie up at any of the waiting docks, or guest docks. We circled around and decided to drop anchor and row in. I took the kids up to go potty, while the Captain dumped the potty, we got back to the boat, and after we pulled anchor, and headed out, we realized that neither one of us grabbed ice, aaarrg.   Oh well, we can still have a block and 1/2, we'll be fine. As we sailed down the San Juan Channel it was kinda weird, because every boat was coming towards us,, none was going with us. By the time we got past Shark Rock we were the only boat in the whole channel.. Weird... We seen 2 sprays/spouts shoot like 9 feet out of the water,, so we kinda got to see a humpback or grey whale-s. We didn't see the sea lion until we went through Cattle Pass. Him and a bunch of girls were sunning on Whale Rock. 

There were at least a dozen of them. We put the sails back up and shot around the bottom of Lopez Island towards Rosario Straight. Watmough Bay is the first bay you come to on the port (left) side. It's so beautiful.. It doesn't have a dock, but the pebble beach is fun to walk on, and the water is warm-ish. We weren't very hungry because I made lunch on the way down @ 20* degree's. It's fun, but.. the knife slides when you let go,, YIKES!! It's fun to watch the seals (Lucy) do the roll and slap that they do it all the time, mostly right before the sun goes down. It took a couple of day's to figure out what what they were doing. On our way here there were 4 gulls sitting in the water, yelling like crazy, messing with a seal that was trying to eat a salmon that she had caught, nice big salmon, but the closer we got, we think the seal was messing with the gulls. The wildlife here is fabulous!! We've seen quite a few Bald Eagles, seals are everywhere. When your sailing, they'll pop their head up and watch you pass, then the dunk back down. Silly little creatures they are. We only seen a couple of porpoises today. Still no Orcas, or bodies, only sprays.   bunkmate