Weather: Grey to sunny. Winds: 0. Seas: Flat.
Woke again to Kelly asking, "Where to today?" Love that gal!
Wanted to explore, go someplace new. Had heard nice things about Sucia, so lets go there. If we don't find something interesting/available there, we can continue home.
It was a motor, out Roche, east out of Spieden, NE in President Channel to Sucia. Had intended to motor around the island, looking into all the bays and coves, just to see what was there. First looked into, but did not enter, Shallow bay and there were a lot of boats there. Continued into the channel between Little Sucia and Sucia to Fox Cove. Only 1 of 4 buoys occupied in this quiet little cove! We took one and did not move on.
First time on a mooring ball for the dogs and they did not know what to make of it. Their barks are probably still echoing off the cliffs there. Our mooring harness had more drag than the boat did and the boat kept bumping up against buoy, setting the dogs off again. So I rigged a drag anchor using a bucket and line. Tossed it off the back and the slight current dragged us away from the buoy.
Whilst the cove was calm, from the mooring buoys inward, the current in the channel ripped. A kayaker came by and told us this was a great place unless there was a SE wind and then it would get bad. Probably why no one was there as we found Fossil Bay crowded when we walked the dogs. Dinghy ashore was easy with a big, wide beach!
Sunset was behind Little Sucia. The boat on the north buoy however, had a full view and kept commenting how beautiful it was as they sipped their wine. North buoy noted.
Next morning, got the fly rod out and toured the cove in the dinghy. No luck, but it was fun! Got back to Strider, retrieved the dogs and walked them along the south side cliffs. Someone had hung from a shore side tree, a wind chime made from driftwood, shells, stones and line found on the beach. I wondered if Katya had been there. Rounding the corner, outside the cove, someone had made a 4ft tall driftwood stick man. Really: Had Katya been there?
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