Tuesday, August 7: Penn Cove to Seattle!

It’s time to end the trip.  We always expect the last day to be long and somewhat boring, much as the first day where we cover the same stretch of Puget Sound.  It was, but it was made slightly more interesting by a low cloud / fog combination that made it chilly and difficult to see where we were going.

We knew it would be tricky when we got up to leave and yesterday’s sunshine was nowhere to be seen.  In fact, we could hardly see the shore.  As we left the confines of Penn Cove, this was the lovely view looking south:



Things didn’t improve much as we continued.  We weren’t in thick fog; we could see maybe a couple of hundred yards so we knew we wouldn’t run into anyone, but most of the time we couldn’t see any of the reference points on land that we use to guide us.  Thank heavens for my cheap little handheld GPS!  Although we could have gone completely old school and navigated just by compass, the GPS made it much easier.  After about 5 hours we just offshore of the town of Edmonds, seen here:


Finally, as we approached the locks where we would get out of the salt water and back into Lake Union, the pea soup broke up a little and we were able to see.  We were treated to some kind of “class” (?) in the bay just outside the locks that made us chuckle.  The students were doing headstands on paddle boards:



We got a lucky break once again on our transit through the locks – the east bound traffic was just exiting as we pulled up, and even with four boats ahead of us in line they were able to squish us in with just a couple of feet to spare so our wait time was zero.



Finally, nearing our marina, we took a victory lap and were happy to see the downtown skyline once again.




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