PENDRELL SOUND

Friday, August 8 to Saturday, August 9, 2025

What can I say about lazy days on the hook at Pendrell Sound except it’s always an adventure. It's a bit overcast today (Friday) so Connie, Greg and I took out the kayaks for a long paddle around the bay. Frank and Eileen arrived late Friday morning, and more boats arrived throughout the day filling the shoreline next to us on both sides including a huge flotilla of 9 boats with cat-hulls, pretty much RIGHT next to us, with their aft decks facing our flotilla. On the other side we still had the two large boats, also quite close to us. Yesterday, while we were trying to get all set up and rafted up together, this large SYC boat powered very close to Greg and Connie’s bow to butt in and claim the rock next to us for their flotilla. It was kind of rude because we were still maneuvering into position and they hadn’t given us a chance to secure our flotilla. I went over in the whaler and explained that we had two more big boats coming in and that they might not want to be that close to us. I received a response of “there’s plenty of room” so I just left it at that, can’t argue with someone who has their gear down and locked. Whatever. Anyway, fast forward to Friday night where we had a raucous card game outside until 10:30PM, followed by Saturday morning generators, and guess what….everyone peeled out this morning! I warned the one flotilla that they were very close, so have no regrets. Today was the quintessential Pendrell Sound experience, all of the toys in the water, giant flotilla of bodies in floaties behind the boats. It was a wonderful afternoon! Earlier that day the boys went to gather clams and oysters and brought back bucketfuls of both. We had decided on an “Appetizers for Dinner” party for the evening, with Bill and Lorraine treating us to their homemade pizzas, and everyone contributing wonderful things. There was probably more food than we’d ever have made if we were just making dinner! Lorraine promoted for everyone to dress in white for the evening, and decorated her table with white decor, passing out white sunglasses. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of our group but did manage one of Frank's family! Played another card game of “Pass the Ace” into the evening, with Greg being the big winner. It was a $5 buy in so he walked away with $55!