Day 205 - We started the day at Kyle's 4th birthday party, so lots of running around and playing for the girls. The weather was looking great, so we planned to spend saturday night on the boat. Since we didn't get out on the boat until afternoon, we weren't sure where we were going to moor for the evening. We figured all the popular places like Jetty Island would be full since it was such great weather. Surprise surprise, Jetty Island was wide open. We were ecstatic since that meant we had to use little fuel to get there and it is free to stay overnight. Since the Jetty Island Ferry runs during July/Aug and there was a kite surfing contest, we were not alone on the island like we usually are. Notice the kites in the background in the pic above. There was great wind today for the kites. Fortunately the wind was welcome as it helped to cool us off. It was hard to find a spot on the beach where someone else wasn't right on top of us. The tide was super high when we got there so we built a sand castle and then a wall/moat to try and block the water from getting to our castle. We were sucessful and the whole contraption was still around the next day! After dinner we caught the tail end of the ranger led camp fire. It was perfect timing, the girls didn't have to sit through the previous 45 min of the murder mystery themed campfire stiry. What is that anyway? By the time we got there, the story was just ending and they were handing out sticks for marshmallow roasting. What a nice surprise. Haley informed us she saw "two satellite plates" on the island. None of us could figure out what she was talking about until we looked up on the visitor center and saw a satellite dish! I love that she is still young enough to say funny cute things like this. We had a beautiful sunset this evening and only two other boats stayed overnight like us.
Day 206 - We hit the beach at a super low tide this morning. There seemed to be a lot more green kelpy stuff on the beach compared to the last time we were on the island. It's pretty gross to step on, but you get used to it. The tide is so far out that you can't help but feel compeled to walk out to the water's edge. It stays shallow so far even past that, so you can go out quite far and feel like you are standing in the middle of the sound. It was hot enough this weekend that we were all in our bathing suits and took turns playing in the surf. The last time we were on the island (Day 177), only the kids swam. There wasn't enough wind today for the kite surfers. We were on the beach until late afternoon, then had to go back to Dagmars to clean out and wash the boat. The cleaning is the not so fun part of taking out the boat for the weekend.
Satelite plate
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