4th of July Week
After getting back from our Blake Island trip, we had a week to do some sailing in the Puget Sound. We reprovisioned and headed out to Blakely Harbor. After a weekend of not getting any sailing in and always being in somewhat of a hurry, I asked Scott that we turn off the motors and just relax a bit. It was a great time to get the spinnaker out and we had a great spinnaker run all the way to the harbor:
We stayed two nights at Blakely and spent the next day exploring Blakely Rocks and heading into Eagle Harbor to check out the town of Winslow. We had a great time checking out the town. We headed back to Ghost, but checked out some beaches on the way back. The evening was beautiful and I got this great shot of downtown Seattle as the sun was setting:
The next morning we headed out pretty early to make the tides at Agate Pass on our way to Liberty Bay. We decided to stay 4 nights in Liberty Bay for the 3rd/4th of July festivities. When we pulled into the bay there were probably 3-4 boats anchored out:
By the 3rd it looked like this:
The picture doesn't really show just how many boats were out there, but at least you get an idea. In Poulsbo/Liberty Bay, they have their fireworks show on the 3rd of July. It was a great show this year. We had a raft-up of about 9 boats and had a great weekend with our neighbors:
It was such a great time. The weather was perfect for us this year. We headed home on Sunday so Ellie could go to a Birthday party. It was the coolest Birthday party I've ever seen. She went to Stone Gardens Rock Climbing gym and learned how to climb:
Why didn't they have Birthday parties like that when I was young?
It was a great week. Not enough time to be out on the boat, but Zak has summer school this year and Scott and I will be working. BUMMER!
