July 13-18
Leaving Clallam Bay we head for Crescent Bay, another one mentioned in George Benson's book.  It is next to the Tongue Point Marine sanctuary and Salt Creek count park.  The park is quite busy with many people enjoying camping and beach combing.  The anchorage is picturesque but quite roly poly.  We are rocked to sleep not quite so gently this evening.

The next day high winds are predicted so we scoot to the shelter of Port Angeles boat Harbor and tie up at the dock for two nights.  Our club has reciprocal moorage here as well so not too hard on the pocket book.  It also allows us to wander around town and find a short list of items that we have written down over the past week.

For each of the two days we average about five miles of walking, a decent stretch of the legs.  We discover two new restaurants within blocks of the marina. The closest is spendy and trendy but very good for dinner, the “Jig and Lure Fish Company.” The next little café is as gem, the Empossible Eden Cafe. Excellent food, decent price, early breakfast and late lunch.  We journey on and return to the boat with most of our supplies ready to enjoy the evening.

The next day we take of for Napa auto parts, another five mile round trip.  We are boat people. Walking is a necessity.  At Napa we will purchase a new belt for our alternator. It seems to be stretching to capacity. We have a spare onboard but this way we can change the belt and we will still have a spare.  A nice surprise for Pam is that right across the street from Napa is a chiropractor that advertises Crawl Ins Welcome. I send Carl on to Napa and I crawl on in to get adjusted. The walk back to the boat is much more comfortable.

 Once back at the boat Carl spots Onnie, another boat from the Club where we live.  We go and visit with John and Marie. They stop by our boat after their supply run to Costco and we have a nice long visit as they pick our brains about how we sail the Salish Sea. They have adopted the family boat and having retired, John is recreating some of his childhood adventures he enjoyed on the boat.

The next morning Onnie departs for Ucluelet and we depart for Dungeness spit anchorage.  Winds are not conducive for a safe anchorage so we continue on to Discovery Bay and tie up at the dock at the condo where family will join us on the 18th.

Carl sets out our “alien spaceship” crab pots and we chat with many happy folks who are crabbing and fishing off the dock.  Carl finds a new fishing option and joins the nightlife happily “squid jigging” until nearly midnight. Thankfully he donated his twelve small squid to his fellow jiggers.  We spend the next day lazily checking crab pots and the hot tub at the condo awaiting arrival of our family on Monday.