Today was great day. We left Shilshole Bay Marina yesterday and went to a beautiful anchorage near Bellingham called Deep Water Cove. While underway we made lunch and a cappucino, so civilized. The anchorage was silent and beautiful. We had an amazing view of Mt. Baker. Such a reward after week and a half at the dock just fixing things in the cold and/or rain. We woke up this AM to 70º and sunshine and still a great view. Now I remember why we wanted to do this trip.
We had planned to go into Bellingham today to pick up the new filters for our watermaker since we knew we had a 50/50 chance of them working and we will need water. But just for giggles, we decided to fire up the watermaker with the old filters, to test the water. After about an hour after we started her, we had great water! The first samples were horrible, yellow and 6400 on the TDS meter (total dissolved solids). The final sample read 200 and smelled and tased great, So now we don't even need those new filters.
We have moved on to Montague Harbour which is a beautiful large anchorage. This is where we checked into Canada. It was finally warm enough and sunny enough to sit outside and enjoy the views.
Tomorrow we are off to Nanaimo where we will hunker down and ride out the next big rain storm and then move on Monday.