Stuart Island to Roche Harbor June 8th, 9th, 2008

We left Stuart Island and the sky was still cloudy, but not raining at that time. It was a short ride to Roche Harbor. Roche Harbor is a resort type marina, it is expensive, like staying at a hotel, but you get to use all the aspects of the resort. They have tennis courts, a pool and a couple of decent restaurants. There is not much to the town of Roche Harbor other than the resort. It used to be a lime quarry and there are a number of ruins, like the lime kilns and some of the early machinery. It rained off and on so we just took our umbrellas everywhere we walked. Our boat friends would like the docking experience, you stern in to large single finger slips that have two boats side by side. Alexus did a great job backing into the single finger slip and very adeptly avoided bumping the boat next door. The other good thing is that the resort has dock hands running all over the place and they took the lines tied us off and helped connect the power. It was kind of like bell boy service at a hotel. We went into the resort restaurant and since the weather was minimally good with some sun, but windy and cool we decided to sit outside. There were about 10 people sitting outside in the sun with those outdoor heaters all turned up high. They had a young woman there performing, a singer,songwriter, guitar player, she was very engaging and professional given the small audience size. By the time she took her break, Alexus and I were the only ones left on the patio, so we invited her to sit with us. Her name is Devorah and she just had a second CD released and is close to a label deal. We had a great time chatting and laughing and Alexus told her about Nikki and Erika, and Devorah shared her head shot and gave us an autographed CD. She is very petite like Nikki and we told her about Nikki’s shoe modeling and she just died and was amazed, then said if Nikki ever wanted to get rid of any of her shoes to send them to her as she is also wears size 6 shoes. We spent the rest of the day wandering around the resort and at the spa, made an appointment for a massage the next day at 2pm. The next day June 9th it was raining and raining hard so we spent most of the day in the boat until our spa appointment. The spa is new, very clean with a pleasant décor. We arrived a little before our appointment and we used the stream room, relaxation room and enjoyed the hot showers and finally the massage. I took three hot showers in a 3 hour period. Our boat friends will appreciate the luxury of standing in a hot shower longer than the short, military like, boat showers we are used to where we conserve our water. We had a nice dinner at the restaurant McMillian’s ,named for the original owner of the resort and retired early since a hard rain had started up again. We hope to make another marine state park tomorrow if the weather clears.