Labor Day at Brownsville.

sunset sky in Brownsville, Washington

We arrived Seattle Yacht Club Outstation in Port Madison. This was a place to stop while we waited for the Olympic Yacht Club to start it's cruise in at the Port of Brownsville. It was a a great place to stop and stretch our legs and just relax without moving for a while. We didn't have groceries or hardware easily acceible by foot or dinghy so it was truely enforced idelness except that the dogs needed tending to which meant essentially a walk jjst about every 4 hours. This became more important as one of fur babies, Luna, was having GI problems. Was it from eating cat feces, old discarded oyster, barnacle off. the creosote coated piling or was it as a result of a medialt condition? I have secured the earliest routine appointment for her at the Purdy Vetrinary Hospital . I need to be sure of the cause of her GI problems manifested by loose stools. I had read that Pumpkin is useful in the control of diarrehia. So she was on a diet of Chicken Breast, Rice and Pumpkin. This seem to work almost immediately so we would put her back on her regular dog food and within hours she was desparated to go to shore to relieve her self. The poor girl some times didn't make it to the shore, mortifining for me and Ed.

In Port Madison we enjoyed the children on various people propelled water crafts such as SUP (stand up paddle board), kayaks, and canoes getting eperience on those devices under the supervision of teens not much older thatn their charges.

We ran into folks that we had met along the way up to Wrangell and back.

From the upper left; gnarly mapel tree, a house across the bay from us in Port Madison, Magic Carpet at the Seattle Yacht Club Outstation, kids learning how to use people powered watercraft Luna surveying her new territory from Magic Carpet.

Yesterday, we moved from Port Madison to Port of Brownsville for the Port Orchard Yacht Club Labor Day Cruise in. Our friend Herb came in with dinner and our friends Anna and Steven from Ashland, Oregon. Dinner was Herb's famous Swedish Curried Meatball and rice with garden salad containg fresh veggies grown in Ashland, Oregon.

After dinner, I caught a ride with Herb, Anna and Steven back to our home to pick up a car. When I entered the house, I noted a faint smell which most likely came from the dried up p-traps. I ran water in all the sinks and into the floor drains in the showers and spa room. I noted the toilet water was mostly evaporated and in one toilet some brown/black streaks in the back of the bowl. So those were cleaned. The dog water bowl was scrubbed clean and the food bowl run through a rinse and hold cycle in the dishwasher. I checked ther freezer and every thing seems in order and the fridge was empty so .... I cleaned the refrigerator! all of this was not my intent when I arrived to the house. I was picking up a vehicle to go buy some chicken breast,3 cans pumkin and 2 pounds of rice. $45.00+ for the afor mentioned plus a one pound package of lunchmeat, two small packages of cheese and a loaf of bread.!!! I had heard the priced were up in the US but we had been in Canada for the majority of the time we had been away.

Luna continued to have GI issues. So after I walked them for the last time, I woke up Ed to walk the dogs because, I had on had a cat nap after getting back to the boat from the house and shopping. While Ed walked the dogs, I boiled on package of chicken breast and made 4 cups of rsice. By the time he had returned back to the boat, the dog's bowls were prepared and I went to breakfast with the yacht club a the Brownsville marina pavilion,

Then I did what you shouldn't do after a heavy meal. I crawled into bed and slept.

We still have not sold the Beneteau and that makes it impossible to moor the boat at the POYC. So, today Ed explored the possibilty of getting moorgage here in the Brownsville marina. He completed the documents and I got out of bed with enough time to read and sign the application and head up to the pavilion for another heavy meal.

We hope that by Monday we will know if we can moor for at least three months here in Brownsville. So will Monday be the end of our journey or will be continuing to be a boat with no home for a while.

Brownsville is about the same distance from Olalla as is the Foss Waterway in Tacoma.

Brownsville is small, rural, no heavy traffic and inexpensive compared to the Foss Waterway.

The marina in Tacoma is in an industrial area, with the hustle and bustle of truck, trains and it is close to down town Tacoma. So we are waiting for the coin to fall and see where the fates and Magic Carpet will take us.

From the top left: My girls, Dusty and Luna waiting for me to arrive to the boat. A dock taken over by sealions! Sunset at Brownsville.