Stir-crazy

After an 11 hour day on the boat yesterday, we would have experienced mutiny from our children had we just taken off for the 3 hour trip to Seattle this morning.  The Everett Marina is actually located on the Snohomish River with Jetty Island Park located across the river from the guest docks.  This little island is almost all sand and the whole thing is a wildlife preserve.  We motored over to the public dock serving Jetty Island and tied up.  We let the kids free and like caged animals they were off and running!  We have never seen them run so much.  Up and down the sand beach, I don’t think they stopped the whole time we were there.

The island has a garbage monster that gives you a free milkshake at Wendy’s if you bring garbage off the beach back to the monster.  We collected some garbage and brought it back to feed the monster.  Now all the kids want to do is go to Wendy’s to collect their prize.

At 11:26 am we took off for downtown Seattle’s Bell Harbor.  We had a smooth 8-knot cruise all the way into Elliot Bay and tied up to our slip at 3:05pm and 28.76nm.  The boat right next to us happened to be a friend from TYC who owns a Camano 31 just like our old one.  It was nice talking with Roger and fun to see the two boats right next to each other.  We trekked up the hill to do some shopping and have dinner downtown.  We had a really nice dinner at the Palomino then headed in for an early night.  Tomorrow we will be home!

Trip Log – 367.13nm

Seattle skyline from the marina