Day 210 A lazy day.

If you click on the picture, it gets bigger--who knew?  This is a picture of Mt. Baker.

It was a lazy day on board Zephyr. Cleaning, reading and of course the occasional shower of rain. The Sun came out to play and dried everything out by early in the afternoon

Seagulls came to visit so Tracy brought up some bread that had hardened so much that there was no way we were going to be able to eat it. She soaked it in some water after cutting it apart so the gulls would stand a chance. Word spread quickly around the harbor that there was a free lunch being offered and gulls came from far and wide. We started with two youngsters and had over a dozen by the time we ran out. They squawked and bellowed for more. I tend to think they have been well trained over the Summers to expect handouts from boaters as they went to the boat that had anyone on deck. I went out several times and every time I did over they came bellowing for more, more, more!!!

I programed in the course for Deer Harbor Marina into the Garmin chart plotter/GPS. A whole 5 miles away. Winds are expected to be light--maybe 5-10mph if we are lucky. We will try and sail if possible as I would like to use the DuoGen in the water mode again to see what it could put out in amps for the batteries. We ran the engine several times yesterday to keep the batteries up to charge as there was very little wind. With the "jumper cable" attached to the oil switch, she pumped out lots of amps.

We stood on deck last night and watched the stars again. We think our anchor light has given up the ghost again. There didn't appear to be any light anywhere around the instruments at the top of the mast. It's on a photo cell so that it will come on automatically when the Sun goes down. We'll check it again tonight as we will be in the Deer Harbor Marina for the next few days. We can get off and look at the top to see if it's on. Sea Marine has already changed it out once since the strobe function didn't work. They may be up there again. We are going to check the wires down here just to make sure we didn't knock anything loose while stowing provisions if we find it out tonight.

Two other boats have come into the anchorage. One large power boats about 35 feet long and another sailboat that has taken off all their sails for the Winter. Both set anchors instead of using a buoy like we did. Guess they don't have a season pass to the state park.