June 19, 2025

Very little to report since my last post a week ago. Chris and I are still hanging out on our boat in Port Edward. However, we think all the stars have finally aligned and we’ve come up with a definitive plan! If all goes well next Tuesday, June 24 in the late afternoon we will have our boat hauled out of the water here at Port Edward. The hull will get pressure washed and early Wednesday morning a trucking company will pick up the boat and haul it to La Conner Maritime Services. (La Conner is a town not far from Friday Harbor with an excellent Volvo diesel mechanic.)

Although we’ve spent most of our time reading, knitting, and stitching…

we have found a few places to walk which we do every day. Here are a few pics from our walks nearby.

A lot of train activity here filled with either containers or oil tankers. One day I counted a train like this one that had 149 train cars, each with 2 big containers stacked on them! Most all of the trains are very long like this. They take about 15 minutes to go by.

There’s a Natural Gas storage and transport facility next door. Here’s one of the tankers passing by.

Salmon and crabbing season is opening soon and there are crab pots stacked everywhere in preparation for the big commercial seafood companies’ fishing fleets to load up onto their boats.

Back in Prince Rupert we came upon these goats lounging in a vacant lot.

Stay tuned for more…