Tuesday through Friday, July 6-9, 2005: Broughy Bay - Lagoon Cove
We left Blind channel around 9:30 with a farewell to new friends and a desire to come back before we leave the northwest. The Youngbloods and Tildens had met up with us and enjoyed their short stay at Blind channel where we also met the Davis’s aboard “Kinship”. We had been with the Davis’s when we went to China to see “Kasekuchen” being built. They were with their son and his family visiting from Florida. The three original boats set out for Broughy Bay, a serene passage through a beautiful channel where porpoises ran beside us happilly playing in the wake of our boat. We spotted two bear eating (salmon?) along the shore. We set anchor in Broughy Bay, I took the kayak down and decided to explore the bay and get a little exercise. Bob was doing boat stuff. We watched satellite TV until 11:30 and woke up the next morning to news of the terroist bombing in London. The real world has a way of sneaking into our peaceful lives with all of the technology aboard.
Our destination today is Lagoon Cove where our friends Bonnie & John Jaquet are flying in on a float plan to spend a few days with us. Many of our Colorado friends know Bonnie & John from their years in Vail. We met in 1974 in Vail, Bob was working for Nobel as a salesman. There were not many families there at the time and I met Bonnie at the pirate ship park with her two children Katie and Charlie, who were exactly Chris and Kim’s age. We left Vail after the ski season and moved on to a couple of different states, but we remained friends with the Jaquets and stayed with them on many ski week-ends over the years. They left Colorado in about 1987 to return to John’s hometown of Seattle and started a game business. We were introduced to the Northwest in 1993 when we visited them, and at our kid’s weddings. The float plane was to drop Bonnie and John off at Lagoon Cove. This area is only accessible by float plane or boat. We rounded the corner to the bay and there they were waving at us from the dock.
When we got settled I called Chris on the satellite phone to see if the baby had been born. The due date was July 12, but Kree tends to have babies a little early. Chris was a daddy again -- our granddaughter had been born July 6 and named Calyx Alicia. Two little girls, Cambry and Calyx. He had misplaced our satellite number, as had Kim, so I’m really happy that I called. Wish we were there -- that is our only regret: not being close to the kids.
Lagoon Cove is a party moorage. They are famous for their nightly “happy hour”. Everyone brings a hors d’oeuvre and we get together in this historic “workshop” where we meet cruisers from all over (the photo on the left is of John standing in front of the historic workshop). It is also the best crabbing we have seen. We caught about 60 crabs between our boats and enjoyed a crabfest for Mark and Roseann’s 27th anniversary.
We stayed two nights and bid farewell to a great place and great new friends.
Our destination today is Lagoon Cove where our friends Bonnie & John Jaquet are flying in on a float plan to spend a few days with us. Many of our Colorado friends know Bonnie & John from their years in Vail. We met in 1974 in Vail, Bob was working for Nobel as a salesman. There were not many families there at the time and I met Bonnie at the pirate ship park with her two children Katie and Charlie, who were exactly Chris and Kim’s age. We left Vail after the ski season and moved on to a couple of different states, but we remained friends with the Jaquets and stayed with them on many ski week-ends over the years. They left Colorado in about 1987 to return to John’s hometown of Seattle and started a game business. We were introduced to the Northwest in 1993 when we visited them, and at our kid’s weddings. The float plane was to drop Bonnie and John off at Lagoon Cove. This area is only accessible by float plane or boat. We rounded the corner to the bay and there they were waving at us from the dock.
When we got settled I called Chris on the satellite phone to see if the baby had been born. The due date was July 12, but Kree tends to have babies a little early. Chris was a daddy again -- our granddaughter had been born July 6 and named Calyx Alicia. Two little girls, Cambry and Calyx. He had misplaced our satellite number, as had Kim, so I’m really happy that I called. Wish we were there -- that is our only regret: not being close to the kids.
Lagoon Cove is a party moorage. They are famous for their nightly “happy hour”. Everyone brings a hors d’oeuvre and we get together in this historic “workshop” where we meet cruisers from all over (the photo on the left is of John standing in front of the historic workshop). It is also the best crabbing we have seen. We caught about 60 crabs between our boats and enjoyed a crabfest for Mark and Roseann’s 27th anniversary.We stayed two nights and bid farewell to a great place and great new friends.
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