We left the dock and headed south in San Juan Channel, thru Cattle
Pass, crossing the Strait of Juan de Fuca entering Admiralty Inlet off of Port
Townsend. Rounding Point Wilson we headed
south down the west side of Marrowstone Island and into Port Ludlow returning
home to our slip in the Port Ludlow Marina after being gone 128 days.
Our friend Michael was there at the dock waiting for us when
we arrived! How nice to see him. Michael & Jane (you may remember that
Jane saw us off the dock when we left Port Ludlow back in May!) brought our car
down to the marina so that we would have transportation home.
Because the car was left in the garage unused for so long
our battery was dead. It was time to get
a new battery before we left but we thought we could take care of it when we
returned. As luck would have it the Interstate
Battery salesman was just pulling into the marina parking lot with his truck to
drop off supplies so we were able to get a brand new battery on the spot! How luck is that!
It is nice to be back at the house – but full of the normal
chores after traveling.
Lots & lots of mail!
I went to the post office to pick up our business mail and all total we
have 5 boxes of mail! This is just one
of them!
It’s surprising how many things we had on the boat for this
trip! Even though we planned and spent
three years getting the boat ready – we brought along many replacement items
like extra pumps, belts, filters, extra anchor, etc… We weren’t sure if we would be able to get
replacements and if we were how much would these things cost?!? Thank goodness, with all of Bruce’s planning
we really didn’t need to brake out these supplies!
Since I was unsure if we would be able to find grocery
supplies easily while up in Alaska, I brought a lot of can goods that I do not
ordinarily have on the boat like canned vegetables, as well as, freeze dried
fruits, powered foods like milk, cheese, eggs, butter, hamburger, etc... I always keep canned soups, stewed tomatoes,
chili, stews and such in case we run into wet rainy weather. It is really easy to just throw on a can of
soup on top of the diesel stove and let it simmer awhile.
Our niece Lindsey is a rep for Shelf Reliance selling Thrive
Foods – which is emergency food kits and food storage supplies. So we brought a bunch of pantry size cans
that are all double sealed of daily items we could eat if we could not get
these supplies in the local stores.
Lindsey makes AMAZING meals from these products so I was fairly
confident I could do it if needed!
Since we have been home we have made several trips taking
all these items off the boat and getting it ready for the winter.
It will take a little while to gather our thoughts about our
truly amazing journey to Alaska this summer.
In the meantime let me share some statistics with you
regarding our trip:
Returned to Port Ludlow:
09.24.2013
Total miles traveled: 3,000+
miles
Total engine hours: 430.9
hours
Pictures taken: 5,300+
It took us 21 days to reach Alaska; we spent 62 days in
Alaska; & our journey lasted 128 days total!!!
It’s nice to be home.
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