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.
I think that was a paddle board yoga class!
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