At Sea Level: July 31, 2014 - Echo Bay via Sullivan Bay

July 31, 2014 – Echo Bay via Sullivan Bay

HAPPY BIRTHDAY wishes to Eleanor !!!

A reasonable 9:30am departure from Blunden Harbor in the fog initially, broke to beautiful sunshine and we travelled most of the way on the fly bridge. Winds were insignificant or light from behind, so the run was glorious and warm.

The entrance to Wells Passage ....

Talbots had suggested we stop in Sullivan Bay as WE hadn’t seen it before …

and I’m glad we did (they would continue to motor along) .

Sullivan Bay is a charming little storybook community on the water. Adorable floating homes line the dock, as do hanging baskets and tubs of flowers. Each of the docks are named, like streets ….

How is this for a fun mailbox ???

Now this is MY kind of low tech weather reporting system ....

We enjoyed lunch, then headed off ....

... and continued on to Pierre’s Marina at Echo Bay …. Another new place for us ….

And it is beyond fun.

The owners, Pierre and Tove (pronounced Tova), are CHARACTERS.

Multiple times during the week, they put on a big “family style dinners” and we hit

Prime Rib Night.

Dinner was fantastic ….

Tove (who HAS to be a retired school teacher) gets the groups attention by clapping a pattern, which we are all to repeat. She continues until she has everyone’s attention, then she announces significant events from the “family” … birthdays … anniversaries ….

Then she says GRACE ... after which dinner is served ……

It is a delightful and very social evening …..

We sat nearby a Seattle couple who were talking about some new folding electric bikes they had recently purchased .... and they took us to their boat to show us how they work.

They unfold from this ....