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| Title photo: The beautiful evening sky on our first day of camp. This is looking toward Mt. Rainier. |
Return: 5:00pm 7/1/2006
Weather conditions: Partly Cloudy and breezy
Tide:Ebbing to the island and when we came home
Boat: 27 ' Club Boat
Crew Size: 6 (Our family)
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| Photo 1: It's all about food. Especially if you're on a boat and you don't drink alcohol. |
Last month we had the most amazing family adventure. Well planned and well executed it may be difficult to make it sound interesting. Isn't it odd how it's the disasters and suffering and tension that seem to make stories so interesting. I'm afraid there's none of that here, but I'll do my best to make it interesting.
First of all, I have no clue how to get my photo captions to line up with the photos. So instead, I'll just insert a photo caption somewhere close to the photo and hope for the best.
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| Photo 2: From the looks on our faces, you might think we were about to be run over by a freightor. Not so. I have no idea what caused the look |
The trip had been planned for a long time; ever since we returned from our Dockton voyage. We had originally planned to go during memorial day, but had to cancel because of cold and rain. At the time we were very let down, but we all agree now that it was worth it because the weather this time was spectacular.
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Photos 3 and 4: Monica and I often show our affection by exchanging karate chops. I'm sure it was some technical sailor talk that had us so animated |
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I won't give a blow by blow account of each day. The food was planned almost too well. I avoided dishes that required a lot of fragile ingredients, and I stored just enough for the trip. In fact, we were practically licking the coolers by the time we got home. What seemed like tons of food had barely lasted.There are all sorts of things to do on the island.
There is a nice beach on the east side where we camped and there is a beautiful sandy beach on the west side. We did some hiking and looked for geocaches. We only found one out of four. We visited the trinket shop and the concession stand. We paddled the kayak around the marina and did a lot of resting and playing on the play area. It's really a great place to be. We even saw a pod of orca whales pass the island. That was impressive.Photo 5: Family campouts are not small productions. I felt almost embarressed with everything we were packing, but we used and ate everything we took.
Sailing Colvos passage is interesting. The currents always flow north (or are weak and mixed). Going to the Island we were on a close reach most of the way. The wind was good and allowed us to sail all the way. Coming back wasn't quite as fun. The wind was light in some parts and we ended up motoring.Photo 6: Hiking the lush jungles of the island looking for hidden treasure. Tiffany shows one of hers from the geocache.
The boat we took was a 27' Catalina (I think). It was the largest boat I've skippered so far, but it was fine. It had an inboard which I really liked.
Photo 7: How can girls make camping look like the waiting room of a Spa?
Photo 8: We saw lots of racoons. They were very bold too. They would wonder around day or night and come right up to camp.
I'd recommend this trip to anyone, and we'll definately do it again.
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| Photo 8: It was really hard to get a photo at the right moment. These whales were quite visible and there were many of them. It was very cool to watch. The picture doesn't do it justice |
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| All about the food |
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| Several wood sprites |
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| Yeah! We found a geocache |
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| Playing with fire - the universal camping activity. |
