Jewel to Jewel - Sucia Island
Wow... it has been awhile... at this rate I won't finish talking about this trip before the next trip this summer! I will try to fix that.... Anyway, My sister and I had spent 2 days at One jewel of the San Juans, Stuart Island , and now it was time to travel to another Jewel, Sucia Island! Now, Sucia is an Island that I have been to before , and it is one of my favorites! There are about six different anchorages around the island, so it is possible you could stay there a week, and never stay in the same anchorage, if you were so inclined. After a lazy morning of coffee in the cockpit and breakfast of Cinnamon Raisin Bagels , I hauled up the anchor with my sister at the helm, and we started to motor out of Reid Harbor at around 11:30. On the way out, I learned an important lesson. I suddenly remembered that I never plotted a course in the chart plotter. Damn! so I had to do one on the fly. Now I don't multi-task well, so i...