We are motor sailing along at 5 knots into the Juan de Fuca straight. Dad managed to get the starboard engine going, he thinks he might have fixed the problem but we're not 100 percent sure On our starboard side, we can see Neah bay; we've come in a full circle! It's so wierd to think that it's been a whole year since we were last here. Everything seems so familiar. Earlier on in the day I saw a big pile of kelp and it really made me think 'Oh! We really are here!' Also, the water has changed from clear and light blue to a thick matte redish dark grey colour.

This afternoon mom and I worked on my pig pyjama's. Half way through, when I just finished hemming one pant leg, Dad called to say that he needed me to go up the mast to get the end of a lazy jack that had come loose and got pulled up the mast yesterday. It was so scary up there because you feel the motion way more then on the ground. I was clinging to the mast for dear life. I felt like the little cloth chair thing wouldn't me if I let go. Eventually, I did have to let go with one hand to bring the lazy jack around the spreaders and attach it to me. Even then I was swinging around alot. If I had let go with both hands I would have been swinging back and forth like crazy. Once I was safely back on the ground it felt a lot less scary. Mom and I went back to pinning the next hem for my pyjama's. But then Neen came back inside to tell me that I actually hadn't go brought the rope around one tiny string and I had to go up the mast again. It was annoying that it was just one tiny string that had gotten in the way, but I really didn't mind very much because it's fun to go up the mast. Soon after, we finish my pyjama's. I think they turned out all right except they are a liitle bit wide.

In the morning at about ten o'clock mom made us a delicious egg and bacon breakfast to celebrate us being so close to land. After breakfast we actually saw land for the first time. I was looking out and I saw something that looked suspiciously like snow covered peeks. Since I wasn't sure that it wasn't just clouds I called everyone and asked them what they thought. They all agreed with me that it looked like land. I shouted Land Ho! Which is what I'm always excited to say :).