What are the odds?

Your intrepid crew

July 9

We spent a somewhat restless night tied up to the fuel dock in Bella Bella.  Lots of boat traffic and generally it is frowned upon to spend the night on fuel docks.  We woke up early and Ron was there to help us fuel up and take on water.  Wonderful guy. After topping off our tanks David was going to walk back to the hospital to give Sue Ellen's Doctor a bag of Golden Malted Waffle Mix (original of course) as a thank you and Ron says "Here, take my truck" and throws him the keys.  Turns out Ron had heard we were at the fuel dock and came down early just to see if we needed fuel.  Again, wonderful guy!

Sue Ellen is doing as well as can be expected, still a trooper and ready to go so we took off and traveled 114 NM to our next destination which is Sullivan Bay Marina in the Broughtons.

As we drew near I spied a very familiar looking vessel.

The Zia.  Aspen C120 Hull # 4 owned by our new best friends Terry and John out of Friday Harbor, WA. What are the odds?  We would be lucky enough to spend more time with them in the coming days.

All buildings in Sullivan Bay are on floats which appear to be made of logs. There is a store, fuel station, a small (fake) brig, houses and very nice people.

Halibut tracings w/weights 

And, of course, as soon as they realized who we were they placed us on the proper dock.  Probably because of all the decals.

Next stop is Pierre's Echo Bay Marina, a mere 21.9 miles away.

Till next time.....