Our plan worked. We got here about 1000, just as the early-risers were leaving and before too many others with the same idea as us arrived. To no one's surprise, the place is packed��"a far cry from what it looked like when we arrived here back on June 1.

The wind is howling out of the south and coming "straight off the Straits" so it's decidedly cool. The long-range forecast calls for it to die down over the next couple of days, so it looks good for a Sunday departure and crossing of Juan de Fuca. The next dilemma is exactly what to do and where to go from there. The tides are good for getting out of here and into Admiralty Inlet. But if we stop in Port Townsend, we'll have a big fat ebb to contend with most of the day on Monday. The alternative is an LFD on Sunday, trying to make it all the way down to Eagle Harbor. That would, in turn, put us only a few hours from home but with no slip to return to and a whole lot of days to be "homeless." 'Tis a problem, to be sure!