Today was even better! It was a beautiful sunny Northwest day so after a leisurely breakfast we decided to relax on the upper deck. Suddenly we noticed other boaters looking out toward Boundary Pass and just beyond that the Canadian border. Not too far out we could see a pod of 4 Orca whales playing in the distance. As we watched, we saw them coming up out of the water nose first and could hear them blowing. Notice the four dorsal fins behind the first whale! What a show they gave us.
In the afternoon we decided to venture out and do some geocaching. For those of you who don't know what that is, check out geocaching.com. It is a fun hobby of looking for hidden "treasure" using GPS coordinates. There are more than 1.3 million hidden by geocachers around the world. As it turns out, there was one hidden on Sucia so we loaded the coordinates into my GPS and took the dinghy to the other side of the island. After finding it (a tupperware container with a log book and trinkets to trade) we realized there was a trail that would have made it much easier to access. As you can see, the route we took was quite challenging but it made for better pictures!
While on our little dinghy excursion we even spotted an eagle but were unable to grab the camera in time. Bob says that means it doesn't count but couldn't resist at least mentioning it. The Pacific Northwest has many of these beautiful birds but we were only lucky enough to spot one this weekend.
After returning to Stargazer, Bob and I went ashore in Shallow Bay to get a picture of our boat moored in the bay and of the bay itself. The view was breathtaking and we were able to get some great shots.
Our evening ended with a wonderful pork tenderloin dinner prepared by the night's chefs, Kevin and Julie, and then a rousing game of Mexican Train. Another wonderful day in paradise.
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