Thursday, July 18, 2013 (Camano Island, WA)

Today 's project was moving the 5er from Lake Sawyer RV park in Black Diamond to Brandon & Kris' property on Camano Island.  We will be glad to get it out of that park, I'm glad we didn't have to be staying there, it just didn't have a very nice feel to it.  Luckily our close neighbors had moved on so we had some room to maneuver.  It was funny, when Elsie first walked in the 5er, we asked her what she thought - her comment was "it's small".  I guess she's used to her big 5 bedroom house.  =)

We got on the road around 11:00 a.m. and had a nice uneventful two hour drive on the freeway up to Camano Island.  We pulled into the kids place and unloaded Elsie to go play with her cousins while we got the 5er parked and situated.  The boys were a little more "impressed" by the 5er and Cameron the oldest thought the slides were pretty cool when they came out. 

After we got set up, the kids got to play in the swimming pool, they sure had a lot of fun together and I enjoyed sitting in the sun watching them.

Cameron, Elsie & Calvin

The plan for the evening was to take the kids boat out on the Puget Sound for a boat ride and to drop a crab pot.  It was a beautiful, warm and sunny evening. 

Right to left - Me, Elsie, Kris & Calvin

The tip of Camano Island

Everett in the distance

Mt. Baker - it's huge and dominates the skyline

The boat ride was fun and we also rescued a floundering rowboat.  As we were coming back to check our crab pot, Rich spotted a person waving their oars above their head and so we went to check it out.  A man was out in a rowboat putting out his crab pots and the wind and current had come up and he wasn't making any headway back to shore.  It might have been because his rowboat had wheels that he had left on and were causing a drag in the water and the fact that he was rowing stern first and didn't seem like he was at all comfortable in the water.  He was very appreciative of the tow into shore.  I believe his wife was also glad as she was standing on the beach waiting for him.  I'm not sure how he was going to retrieve his crab pots the next day but I guess that's for him to figure out.   Our crab pot yielded one crab and it was a keeper.  We made short work of eating that yummy crab, especially Elsie, she got right in there like a pro cracking and picking her part of the crab.