Saturday, August 4: Friday Harbor to Blind Bay, Shaw Island

We didn’t go very far today, but we had a great time.

After getting coffee and internet access in the morning, we left about noon and cruised for a whole hour before we dropped anchor in Blind Bay, on Shaw Island.  On the way, we had a beautiful view of Mt. Baker:


We have two sets of Montlake friends, the MacLeods and the Frankenbergs, who used to be neighbors but moved away several years ago.  They both have homes on Shaw and since we haven’t seen them in a long time we arranged to spend the afternoon visiting.  We dinghied over to the ferry landing where the MacLeods picked us up.  Shaw Island has a number of beautiful homes, but only one small business which is a little grocery store.  Nevertheless, Alex gave us a great tour of the island and pointed out lots of things that we never knew were here, like the community run library, the museum, the oldest continuously running school in the state (K – 8), the community center, and the glorious views.  We went to the Frankenberg’s home and had a great time catching up – Allison used to babysit their kids, and now the oldest is beginning high school.  Man, time flies.  Over to Alex’s house to see it for the first time, and then back to our dinghy.  A fun day.

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