Laundry

Today was laundry day. Part of the reason we moved to this anchorage the other day was that we wanted to be able to dinghy to a laundromat that is about 1.5 miles from here. We have to go over some shallow areas to get there so we planned to get over and back before low tide. Last year we recorded a track on my phone so today I used the track to act as the navigator while George drove the dinghy. 

The most challenging part of the trip was maneuvering the dinghy around a skiff that was tied up near the boat ramp steps, but George managed to get it done. It is always interesting finding a place to tie up the dinghy here. In the past we used a cinder block or a tire. The cinder block is now gone and the tires are full of empty cans. George tied the dinghy up to some heavy debris that was lying on the ground. 

The laundry is done and George is using the line to maneuver the dinghy around the skiff that is tied up at the wall. I am standing on the top step to take the picture. We could have tied the dinghy up between the steps and the skiff but we don’t like to be in the way of anyone else that wants to use the steps. You might be able to see a white shape in the water to the left of the skiff. It is another skiff that has sunk. 

This was our route. We started in the upper left-hand corner where Breeze On is anchored. We followed the yellow line to the boat ramp (orange icon in the bottom right-hand corner.) The laundromat is the bottom blue icon.