Last Day on the Water this trip

Another sunny day, with little breeze and high 60’s. Today was my last day on the water out here in the Pacific Northwest. I was away from the dock at 6:45am. I had a tail current most the way, but still pushed the throttles up for a good part of the time, running at 20 kts. (And I believe the tail current gave me a 4kt push about half the way!) The route took me around the east side of Harstine Island, south on Case Inlet, then Balch Passage south of McNeil Island, under the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and north on Colvos Passage. It was midway on this passage that I came across an abandoned paddleboard. I suspect it floated away from a beach somewhere, or fell off someone’s boat. I contacted the Coast Guard, and they had a boat in the area that came and picked the board up. (I didn’t think of getting a photo of them until they sped away and passed me.) I continued on around the west side of Blake Island into Rich Passage, around Pt. Glover, into Port Orchard, and then on to the Port Orchard Marina. It was crazy busy up on the street there with some kind of market or craft fair going on. I bypassed all the stands as I was ready to get off the water and head over to my brother’s for the weekend. The C-Brat, Dave, that I left my truck and trailer at was still out in the San Juan Islands fishing, so I caught an Uber to his place. Came back then with the truck and trailer to the boat ramp and loaded C-Traveler up. Headed back up to Dave’s place, and flushed the motors and washed the boat down with salt-away. Then headed over to Arlin and Maryann’s, about an hour away. I’ll stay here two nights, and then head out early Monday morning on my long drive home. I added one more unrelated video to this blog. Rosanne and I enjoy watching "our" birds, and we have a birdhouse right outside our kitchen window. Rosanne captured some video of mama feeding one of her babies. Thought you might enjoy it too.Lue lisää