Monday, August 18, 2008

Bainbridge Island Marina to Bell Harbor Marina Seattle August 10th, 2008

We left Bainbridge Island Marina to head back to Bell Harbor Marina as the next morning, Aug 11, Bruce would need to catch a shuttle back to the Seattle airport. We spent sometime cruising Elliot Bay which is part of the working port of Seattle. It is a great deal like the Oakland estuary with large cargo ships and cranes loading containers. We had a reservation at Bell harbor and would be in slip A14 near the Harbor office. When we pulled in there was a sail boat next to us and they said “Hey NuMoon we watched you go through the Ballard Locks yesterday”. It really is a small boating world. We asked if they had taken their boat through the locks and they said no, they were there just watching, in order to see how it worked. Bell Harbor Marina is a great location and we decided to explore a little of Seattle. So Bruce, Alexus and I took off walking the Seattle waterfront being tourists. When we came to Seattle by plane for the Seattle boat show last February, we had found a great restaurant called “Brooklyn's”. They had excellent food and wonderful fresh oysters, so we walked the mile and a quarter and enjoyed a fantastic meal and drinks and were entertained by the bartender Kalani. After dinner, we headed back to the boat so Bruce would have time to shower and pack and be ready for the next days early shuttle. Both Alexus and I thoroughly enjoyed having Bruce join us. He is a wonderful man, and his wit and humor made the events of the day go fast and he filled them with memories. If he is free when we take our next trip, perhaps Mexico… Bruce can you meet us in San Diego?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Alexus, your hair looks so different!!! Did you cut some off?? And, is it back to natural color or just sun faded?? :-)

LYL!
Mom