We left today for our annual “San Juan Island Boat Trip”. We usually take this trip the last week of July or the first week of August, but we missed it due to our spontaneous Inside Passage trip to Ketchikan, AK on Gold Rush. Because of the late season and the weather forecast, our itinerary actually changed and we ended up in South Puget Sound instead.
As we passed the mouth of Gig Harbor we saw the “Adventurer” sailing north. We then passed under the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, turned right and went down the west side of Fox, McNeil and Anderson Islands. Once there, we turned west again at the south end of the Key Peninsula, just north of Johnson Point. As we passed Johnson Point the occupants of a small boat began waving their arms in a manner that we thought meant there were porpoises in the vicinity. Were we wrong!
We spent the next hour slowly cruising north up Case Inlet, between Key Peninsula and Hartstene Island following 6 orca whales. We called in the sighting to OrcaNet.org, and they told us that these were transients that had been in South Sound for the past couple of weeks. After an hour the whales went one way and we continued north to Grapeview, and our favorite South Sound marina – FairHarbor, for fuel and a visit to Cathryn’s favorite marina gift shop. We then cruised south to Jarrell’s Cove State Park on Hartstene Island, pulling in around 4PM. It was still warm, so we spent a leisurely afternoon having a beer and reading books. This evening after dinner, it’s more reading and what will probably be an early night. It’s getting dark early these days.
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