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Thursday July 12^th– Lazy morning at anchor, we didn’t get up and off the boat until around 11am. Nice to just sit and relax in a beautiful anchorage.  We finally got in the dinghy for a ride to the beach to do some hiking but with a minus 2.7 tide we couldn’t find a good place to anchor the dinghy.  So, we decided to do some touring of the local area by small boat and headed south to Mud bay.  Cruising along at 20 knots we came upon a huge house with multiple guest houses and a dock with a sign that said Welcome to Sperry Peninsula.  I told Julie “it says welcome, let’s go up and see what it is.”  I couldn’t convince her.  We later found out it it’s one of Paul Allen’s houses, probably better we didn’t venture on land, fine Julie was right.  We toured Mud Bay then Hunter Bay scouting out good anchorages for a return trip.  We got a little too close to some seals on a drying shoal, they seemed to bark and snort at us, but the babies were so cute we couldn’t resist getting closer.

After the tide came up we went back for the hike.  Really fun cliffside trail all the way around what I think is called Unnamed Island #3. The views were amazing, and Ava loved the challenge of the hike.  We then crossed back over the beach and hiked the other side (Decatur Island) up to the highest point overlooking the bay.