Yachts, Yams, and Turkey - Thanksgiving at Sucia

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend on Sucia.


We left Saturday morning to join George and Lorna and Dave and Barb in Fossil Bay who had left the day before. It was quite the trip over I have to say, the winds were high, supposed to die down at 11am but did not. After waiting awhile we decided to head out anyway. What is normally a 35 minute run took 2 hours. Not fun! But we made it and got dock space in Fossil which was nice for a change. George thought we wouldn't cross but Dave knew we would. They reported huge rollers in the straight that morning, boats who left but came back in as it was just too rough.


We had a great afternoon sitting around the picnic table on the dock and met another nice couple who were joining us for dinner that night, Al and Rhoda on Ubique. George and Lorna had cooked a turkey the day before and we had a fabulous dinner on their boat complete with all the trimmings. Thank you so much G&L, it was super!!

Al and Rhoda are members of the Point Roberts Yacht Club some of whose members were on Sucia for their Thanksgiving/ season windup dinner, they were over at the other dock in Fossil and we were planning to meet them the next day.


Our firepit at the top of out dock which we put to good use, with lots of firewood around to burn. Behind the picnic table is the other dock in Fossil Bay which PRYC was docked.
The campsites on Sucia are incredbly scenic...

A view of beautiful Fox bay. A narrow isthmus separates Fossil and Fox Bays. There are beautiful walks and views in every directions.

Here we are heading down the winding trail to meet with the gang at PRYC. Quite a hike with the wheelbarrow full of food and supplies, liquid and otherwise...

A view out the window at the Cabana, notice there are no boats moored - I think this must be a first for the season.

Our potluck dinner in the cabana. We had another Turkey, ham, George's Turkey casserole, salads, appetizers. Just fantastic! Lots of interesting conversation too.

Campfire time, jokes and songs.

What a great group of people, looks like we may have to join this Yacht Club.

We had a roaring fire, actually the first of the season because of the campfire ban.

The next morning most boats were getting ready to leave fairly early.

Invictus, Playtime, and Ubique headed out before 10, but we decided to take one last walk on the island as you never know when you'll get a chance to go back.

Treazure waiting for us, the last to head out, looks like sunset but was actually 11 am.

Thanks to all. We really enjoyed meeting you and all your interesting stories. Good Luck to Kailani who are sailing to Mexico and then on to Bermuda and finally crossing over to the Mediteranean. They have promised to keep us all informed of their adventure. It was a great weekend and I am truly thankful.

Kalena

More Thoughts and Destinations to Come...

There is a dichotomy in boating that always pulls me in two directions.

The lure of the open sea, the awe and inspiration of nature, the peace and solitude of a cove all to yourself. This beauty of a living canvas around you that is filled with sunlight dancing on waves, an ever changing formation of clouds, the smudge of rain falling on the distant horizon, at night a thousand slivers of moonlight creating a pathway on the sea, a canopy of a million diamonds above you and sometimes if you're really lucky reflected and spread out like a carpet around your boat. All this restores my soul, grounds me, and calms me like nothing in a modern world can. This time is precious time.

But...

An invitation to join another boat or a group heading somewhere fun pulls in another direction. While you give up a little of the freedom you get just as much of something different in return. Laughter and jokes, opinions, sharing of what you have with you, togetherness, the comradery of braving a rough crossing or something new discovered. The mutual satisfaction of the return journey with stories to talk about later. And at other times, pulling into the protected embrace of a harbour or marina, tying up at the dock and meeting new people. This time is precious time too.


September seemed to fly by. We spent this last month at the dock, crabbing and partying and it was fun! Catching up with dock friends, M dock is very social now, finding out who's been where, who's fixed what, who's buying which, this is an interesting and even essential part of the boating season.

The changeover to Fall is almost complete. We will head out again on the water, hopefully this weekend with everyone to Sucia Island. I still have lots of thoughts and destinations to share. We went to some extremely beautiful places this summer, places that were even better than I'd hoped they would be. The photos turned out well and it has taken alot of time to sort and edit them to do these places justice but I am almost ready to go. I also have some opinions on things we've seen this summer that may interest you or antagonize.

I hope you will stay tuned.

Kalena