2016 Voyage of the Lady Lynn

Monday, August 29, 2016

Aug. 29th - Home

I got up at 6:30 & it was 54' outside. This morning we go home and a friend of Heather's is coming up after work to have dinner with us. Her name is Jen Parrish & we've known her a long time.

We got back to Shelter Bay at 12:40. We brought some food up from the boat & we'll sleep in the house tonight but Heather & the kids are staying on the boat - the kids like that.

We went to dinner about 6:30 to the Pub & then we brought the kids home. Heather & Jen are going to hang out until 9pm & then Jen will drive back home. This will be my last post.

Tomorrow we take Heather & the girls down to Seattle - they have a 5:30 flight out.

Today we went to Roche Harbor & took a taxi to the San Juan Winery to do a Rotary Club event that Bob Brinkow told us about. They had a lot of cars in the field that we're show cars that we looked at & Bob had one there too. They also have a camel (that used to belong to a friend of ours in Shelter Bay) & a llama in the field across from the winery. The camel is called Moanie (not sure about that spelling).

The Rotary was serving lunch - you could have beef hot dogs, pastrami or pulled pork in the hot dog buns with a variety of other things in it. They also has Cole slaw, potato salad & 2 kinds of chips. Then you could have your beverage of choice - wine or water. It was a fun outing & the girls loved seeing the camel & the llama. While we were waiting for the taxi to pick us up at 2pm (we arranged that when he dropped us off), it started to rain & was pouring when we went back to the boat in our dinghy. So that cancelled our activities that we were going to do at Roche before we left.

When we got back we played Mexican Train & Carcassone. Dinner was a combination of crab cocktails & smoked salmon, with martinis with blue cheese olives. Then Heather & I finished the rest of the boxed wine - both red & white as there wasn't much left.

Tomorrow morning we will head home.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

August 28, 2016 Henry Island

New pavilion at SYC Outstation

SYC moorage at Henry Island

Great place for the kids

Lady Lynn at Henry Island

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Aug. 27th - SYC Henry Island

I got up at 7am & it was 61'. Later today we are going over to Roche Harbor to do a variety of things. One of them is to go look at a Sonship that one of our friends has there to see what they look like. The Captain thinks he needs a different boat & he's interested in a 58' which is what our friend Bob has. They are much easier to get on & off of, so we'll see what the Admiral (me) thinks!

We went to Roche & did see the Sonship that our friend, Bob Brunkow, owns. We both really liked it but each boat is different (& his is not for sale), so we'll see what ones that are for sale look like. Rod also has not totally given up on a Fleming so who knows. Then we went to lunch at the restaurant & Bob came with us.

We also looked for birthday presents for the girls - I found 2 things for Sienna. But Talia has a very hard time making decisions about gifts for her, so nothing so far. We got back around 3pm & the wind had really picked up. I got totally wet from the spray. Had to dry out my pants, jacket & life jacket in the sun.

We had flank steak, Quinoa & salad for dinner. Rod barbecued the steak on the boat & we ate inside the salon. We (not Rod) also went up & did s'mores & then Heather & the girls stayed after I went back to the boat.

Friday, August 26, 2016

August 26, 2016 Henry Island

Sienna & Talia do a synchronized hair-flip at the SYC Henry Island Outstation

Aug. 26th - SYC Henry Island Outstation

When I got up at 7am it was 62'. Heather, Rod & I had breakfast at the end of the dock. The kids were still asleep when we went but Mom got them a big cinnamon roll to share. They stayed up really late last night - Heather went to shut them down at 11:30pm!!! Rod went to bed right before that & said they were having way too much fun😻.

We left Genoa Bay at 8:45 & arrived at Customs around 11:30 (no issues there) & then we were at Henry Island by noon. While we were underway Heather, Talia, then eventually Sienna played Carcasonne in the salon as it was still pretty cool on the flybridge. We arrived at Henry Island at noon. There were a lot of boats who we've been seeing often this summer who were also there.

We did some walking around here today. The girls wanted me to play "witch" with them so I did for awhile but it was very hot - in the 80's - so we didn't play for long...definitely not my favorite game that they make me play.

Tonight we had Spagetti & meatballs for dinner with garlic bread. After dinner we went up to the barbecue to make s'mores (not Rod). There is a burn ban here so no fires allowed. But it worked pretty well on the barbecue. There was another couple up there who were on someone else's boat. They were from La Conner and live on the channel heading towards Anacortes.