Spent Sunday and Monday in the company of Carey and his wife and their lobsterboat Happy Destiny.* After some interesting albeit a bit nerve-wracking adventures with a mooring buoy and eelgrass at Center Island we ended up at the Blakely Island Marina a couple of miles from Center.* My wife and I had never been in there but Carey had.* Nice little hole-in-the wall marina with good protection from the weather.*
First shot is the marina basin itself.* Second panorama shot is from the stern of our boat and shows the narrow marina entrance leading in from Peavine Pass.* Third shot is of Peavine Pass with the current running heavy and the San Juan Seafoods buy-boat "Caleb Haley" (based in Bellingham) on its way to pick up fish from somebody somewhere.* Next shots are of a river otter family that was feeding on eels or candlefish in the marina.* Two adults and two young ones.* One of the young ones thought Carey and I might be a good source of a treat and came to visit.
Last shot is of our boating waters on one of the rare occaions when you can actually see them through the mostly continuous curtain of rain, fog, volcanic ash, snow, and sleet we have here.* I took the photo because I realized this was also one of those rare times when the wind wasn't blowing 40 knots with gusts to 70.* And I realized later it must have been at absolute slack tide (which lasts about 15 minutes around here) because the water was not filled with huge whirlpools and boils.* A rare picture indeed.
-- Edited by Marin on Tuesday 24th of August 2010 12:24:49 PM
First shot is the marina basin itself.* Second panorama shot is from the stern of our boat and shows the narrow marina entrance leading in from Peavine Pass.* Third shot is of Peavine Pass with the current running heavy and the San Juan Seafoods buy-boat "Caleb Haley" (based in Bellingham) on its way to pick up fish from somebody somewhere.* Next shots are of a river otter family that was feeding on eels or candlefish in the marina.* Two adults and two young ones.* One of the young ones thought Carey and I might be a good source of a treat and came to visit.
Last shot is of our boating waters on one of the rare occaions when you can actually see them through the mostly continuous curtain of rain, fog, volcanic ash, snow, and sleet we have here.* I took the photo because I realized this was also one of those rare times when the wind wasn't blowing 40 knots with gusts to 70.* And I realized later it must have been at absolute slack tide (which lasts about 15 minutes around here) because the water was not filled with huge whirlpools and boils.* A rare picture indeed.
-- Edited by Marin on Tuesday 24th of August 2010 12:24:49 PM