Pea soup fog has crept in during the night.  We’d planned on leaving by 0700 hrs. I was hoping Al would wait for the fog to lift before pulling the anchor.  But, no.  The anchor was going up before I’d even finished brushing my teeth.  So, I multi-tasked, booting up our navigation program, activating a route to Port Townsend, and flossing.  

Al assured me that the fog would lift by the time we were underway.  Wrong.  The fog just got thicker the farther north we got.  Luckily, the radar and AIS program seemed to be working.  As we approached the Port Townsend Canal, I said, “You should get on the radio and let people know we’re about to enter the canal.  Just about that time,  I spotted an AIS target, a pleasure boat named “Star”, headed through the Canal, doing over 10 knots!  As “Star” exited the canal, I said, “You’d better hail him. He’s headed right for us.  Al altered our course to miss “Star”, and “Star” altered his course, heading right for us.  Al got on the radio and hailed him again.  “Star” finally answered and thanked Al for the heads up.  Whew!  Cheated Death again.

By the time we got through the canal, the fog had started lifting and we made Port Townsend without any further difficulties.  Al called the Boat Haven Marina and got us a slip for the night.  The slip was a port side tie, so Al had to back in, which he managed beautifully, with some help from the thrusters.  Piece of cake.

As soon as we got tied up, I headed for the marina office to pay for moorage and get the code for the trash container.  I learned that the marina doesn’t have WiFi service, but I was able to connect to North Olympic Wireless, which worked well.

Then, I was off to pick up a new kayak paddle at West Marine.  Fortunately, they still had the paddle, which was a tad long, but it will work.  

My next stop was Safeway to stock up on groceries.  Luckily, I had my little folding cart, because I must have had 50 pounds of produce and some Chinese takeout to haul back to the boat.  My back is hating it, and my little cart was hating it, but we both managed to make it back to the boat in one piece.

After dinner, I decided to check out the downtown district, which is about 3 blocks long.  I hadn’t been here in about 20 years.  Other than a few more restaurants, a laundromat,  and a bakery, I couldn’t see that much has changed.  According to my smartwatch I managed to get in 14,000 steps today!  After those Belgian waffles yesterday and the day before, I really needed the exercise.