We left Orcas Island YC dock and our new friends from the Capital City Yacht Club and headed to Sucia Island. None of these are great distances as compared to what we had been doing in the ocean travel. It only takes two to three hours, sometimes less to get to the next destination point. We have been staying – mooring- in Washington State Parks. They are beautiful and with the annual pass we bought, very inexpensive. They are only $10 per night and with the pass we don’t have to worry about correct change and we will definitely get our moneys worth, and have already. It is also so much easier to moor out than to dock. Sucia Island looks like a hand and has four fingers of water you can travel in and it has a couple of coves. It is about 3 miles square and is forested, has a dive park, a float for docking and upwards of 20 plus mooring balls spread across the fingers that make up the island. We hiked all over that island in the three days we stayed there. We actually moved from one finger –Echo Bay, to one further south, Fossil bay. Echo Bay was like a bay, very open to wind and current, but the length of the finger mitigated the impact. We stayed there one day and that night the swells were so bad we had to secure things we had not secured since leaving the ocean. We decided to try Fossil bay since it was much more narrow and just as deep.
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