Sincerely, Denise

POINT BAKER ON THE DOCK

Sunday, July 12^th

Buoyed by their recent success fishing, John and Greg left at 5AM this morning to try it again! I had been awake since 3AM so was thankful that I fell back asleep after he left until 8:30AM. I had a quiet morning sorting and culling the nearly 100 pictures I took yesterday, while in tandem whipping out 3 loaves of banana bread. I had 6 large overripe bananas hanging around and it was time to do something about it! It is sunny today but the wind whipped up unfortunately, so it’s a bit chill outside. Our pilothouse is like a greenhouse however so it’s toasty in here without need for any diesel heat. Did some housecleaning and vacuuming, dried my laundry that I washed while underway yesterday. I only wash clothes or run the dishwasher when out in open waters where it can flush, never in a cove or bay or at the dock as its just not good form, nor considerate boater etiquette. You don’t dump your gray water into a small pristine cove and choke the marine life, and marinas definitely do not want you dumping your gray water into their marina and in some cases will fine you. I also only use eco friendly detergents without phosphates to minimize our footprint. Enough of my “soap box”. Anyway, finally got caught up on yesterday’s blog and photo editing. The boys came back skunked again except for the plethora of rockfish they caught and released, just no salmon. Later in the afternoon, John and I ventured out to go check out Port Protection, about a 15 minute ride around the corner - once we made it out of the shallow rocky tidelands west of the dock. The wind was still sporty on our journey, but the sun was beaming down unobstructed by clouds making for a very pleasant ride! Port Protection is exactly as we remembered it, the half sunk public dock that nobody in their right mind would tie to, the gas dock and store (closed because it’s Sunday), and all the weathered but charming cottages and homes along the shoreline. There appeared to be a really nice new building on shore with a very expensive ramp and dock, so there is some new life there. Again, so impressive what these folks do to exist and thrive in this environment. Dinner tonight was a group appetizer party with everyone bringing their A Game, Connie made some delicious salmon dip from yesterday’s leftover fresh salmon dinner, Lorraine made an impressive charcuterie board worthy of Instagram, I did a repeat performance of the PF Chang Lettuce wraps because they are just so damn good. Early to bed for us because tomorrow we are choosing to leave at 4:30 to get out in front of any potential wave action. We have a long run of 70 miles, 40 of which is down Clarence Strait and you may recall Clarence kicked our butts coming out of Ketchikan in early June!