Time to go Cruising

Thursday the 4^th – With all the factory work completed it was time to go cruising!  We left La Conner bound for Deer Harbor where Skylar’s friend Dylan was flying in on a floatplane at 2:55 pm to stay with us for a few days. Arriving at the marina early we got tied up and made our way to the pool for some swimming.  The weather was finally kind of nice and the pool was just what we needed. Dylan’s flight came in right on time as we watched him land and taxi to the dock.

The float plane service around Puget Sound and the BC coast is very cool.  You can just about fly anywhere you want via Kenmore Air, Northwest Seaplanes and a couple others.  They have regular schedules and stops but you can also have them land in almost any bay on the coast.  Up in BC’s Desolation Sound they land in areas where there’s no docks or services, then you pick up your guest by driving your dinghy to the floatplane where they hop in and motor back to your boat anchored in some cove.  Its an awesome service and its quick.  You just arrive at the departure point 5 minutes before scheduled take off and hop on the plane.  Much more enjoyable then the crazy airports we all used to.

The 5 of us hung out on the boat that night in Deer Harbor and had fun listening to the pirate ship sing songs.  There was this really old sailboat moored across from us that had a large crew.  They were mostly young folks who I assume were volunteers crewing on this boat for the experience of it all.  They played all kinds of instruments and and sang songs like some sort of band from the 1800’s on a pirate ship.  They were very talented and fun to listen to.