Monday, August 6: Cornet Bay to Penn Cove, Whidbey Island

Another day to visit people.  Kristine has a friend whose husband started the famous Penn Cove Mussels business, the largest commercial mussel farm in North America.  He retired and sold the business to his sons, but they still live in Coupeville and invited us to their home for dinner.

We stopped enroute at Oak Harbor to fill the fuel tanks.  Our boat is pretty economical, as power boats go – even with today’s prices for diesel, it only cost $360 to replace all the fuel we burned in the last 3 weeks of cruising (100 gallons).  In and out, we headed for nearby Penn Cove and anchored just as a rain cloud passed overhead.  “Sign of things to come,” we thought, but it actually did pass and the rest of the afternoon was warm and sunny.  We explored Coupeville for a bit and then had a wonderful dinner with great people.