Summer came late to Puget Sound this year. We rarely had two sunny days in a row until mid-July. We’ve now had a couple of weeks with temperatures consistently in the 70s. We’ve done many afternoons of boating, lots of successful crabbing (with Adrienne and her boyfriend Justin too), and Ryan borrowed the boat for a weekend, but we’ve made no overnight trips until today.
This morning we left Olalla at 10:30 under sunny skies with glassy water and no wind – perfect! On our northbound journey we came across a free-floating buoy (the second one this week – maybe we should open a buoy store, Bob says) so salvaged it. Other than that, saw lots of navy vessels coming into Seattle for Seafair weekend, a dozen Dall’s porpoises and a few seals. By 1:00 we arrived at the Port Ludlow marina 42 miles north where we’re tied up for the night.
One of our favorite activities is walking the docks looking at boats; today we were especially interested in trawlers in the 40-45 foot range, as that’s what we expect to buy in January to begin our eastern seaboard Great Loop trip.
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