Eagle Harbor

Tuesday, May 6. Another calm day on the water. Sunny and upper 60’s. Short day as well at 17nm. Got underway with a knot of current on the bow. Went another mile or so in the Swinomish Channel, before passing under the route 20 highway bridge, and through a railroad swing bridge, and on into Padilla Bay. Padilla Bay is mostly a mud flat with a narrow dredged channel through it. Stopped in Anacortes at Cap Sante marina to walk across the street to a service station to get some more diesel fuel for my Webasto heater. (Cheaper than buying it at a marina, and I’ve been running the heater with the cold nights in the 40’s.) Continued on through the Guemes Channel and Bellingham Channel to Cypress Island where I picked up a mooring ball in Eagle Harbor. Decided to get my kayak down, and peddled around the harbor. The disadvantage to being on a mooring ball with a C-Dory, is the ball tends to hit the bow occasionally with changing currents or wind, which echoes into the V-Berth. I think I’ve found a way to hook up the ball to keep it from doing that. I run my line through my anchor roller and over the top of my anchor, and tie it taught. I’ve been seeing seals often, but usually just get a glimpse of their head, and then they dive usually before I can get my camera.Read more