Day 212 Happy Thanksgiving!!

Half a turkey sure beat none. We had ours cut in half at Safeway so that we didn't have to try and get through a 16 pound turkey in back to back to back meals. The second half is down in the base of the refrigerator/freezer still pretty much hard as a rock.

As I said in yesterdays post that is delayed in getting posted since we have no internet here at the Deer Bay Marina, Tracy did a lot of the baking on Wednesday. Today was the turkey, mashed potatoes, and the rest of the great stuff. Dinner was set by 5:00 and it went down real easy.

Earlier in the day, we took a walk around the area to see what was nearby. Not a lot. Lots of houses and a nearby boatwork yard. There is another marina up at the end of the bay and that's about it. A nice quiet rural area. I will say that the drivers on this island don't drive slow. They hit the road running and just keep at it only slowing down on the curves--if then.

While this is a nice marina and a lot cheaper than Point Hudson, with no phone nor internet service, we will continue to search for some place to call home over the Winter. Being at anchor is great but there are times that we will need to come into a port for provisions.

I have classes in diesel engines at Port Hadlock from December 8 through the 11 so we will be either anchored there or in Point Hudson. Then there is a class in our specific engine over in Seattle on December 20 and I'm not about to miss it as by then I will know what questions to ask that specifically concern my engine. Until then we take each day one at a time.

Tomorrow, we take off for Jones Island just West of here for a day or two. Then who knows where. We simply need to find a state park that we can use so we get our money back of the cost of the permit we bought in late October. At $150.00 for the permit and each night at a buoy costs $10.00 per night if you don't have the permit. We've stayed two nights so far. If we find a park with a dock we can pull into, it is more so that is the plan. Find a park with a dock.

We ran into two men as we returned from our walk. They clued us into what to do and where to go in the islands and up in Canada. We plan on trying some of them out over the next few months. It was great talking to two men who really knew the area.