Written July 3, 10:30 am
We finally reached Neah Bay yesterday, after a 21 hour rattleless and crabpot free journey. Neah Bay has never looked so beautiful! Now, I'm sitting in the cockpit as I write this and Cory is enjoying relaxing on the bow as we head towards Port Angeles.
The ocean journey was mild and uneventful. However, we agree that night journeys on the ocean are not our favorite part of boating, and should be avoided whenever possible. During the night, when you are convinced that fifteen minutes have passed, you can be relatively confident that at least five minutes have gone by. And those flashing lights out there. Are they marking a fishing net? Or are they crabpots? We just stayed miles away.
The good news is that we were crab pot free all night. The only "crab pots" we saw flew away before we had too many heart attacks.
Today, the Straits of Juan de Fuca are unusually calm. The sunshine is peeking through the clouds and the Olympic mountains look spectacular. We'll cover close to 60 miles today in about 10-12 hours. In the meantime, we're letting the autopilot steer, while we read, relax, and check around us every few minutes. We're heading back to Portland tomorrow for a few days. Then, it's back to the boat, and time to head for Canada.
2 comments:
That's awesome, glad to see things are running smoothly. I think it was probably a Risk piece *in* the waterpump that was the problem, actually -- Toby has a way of disciplining problem soldiers by hiding them in unpleasant places. BTW, we're gonna be in PDX from the 13th to the 22nd -- if you're not going to be too far off by then we should hang.
Good job, you guys! Glad you made it around Cape Flattery. Now for some fun!
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