Bay Centre, WA

Cool night, lots of stars, no racoons and woke to sunshine – yay!  We spend an hour or so planning the next few days and booking accommodation on the Puget Sound so we can ferry across to Seattle.  Also working on how and when we do the Boeing tour in Everett.  Hopefully both all booked!

So now it’s around 11 am and way past time for breakfast – still working our way through the fresh blackberries – yum yum!

Kim embarks on a cleaning frenzy so I pass the hose through the bedroom window so he can hose out engine bay in the back – he’s been waiting for the perfect opportunity to do that and here we are on a grass site with water and hidden from most viewpoints, so a good job done.  That, plus cleaning the carpet around that area too – good result.

  

A coffee sitting in the sun on the picnic tables out in front, we don’t yet have full sun on the coach.  Can't sit around all day, so off for a bike ride.  We cycle around the little peninsula we are on, there are only four streets in each direction and then out on the main causeway where we saw the oyster selling place.  Dammit - it is closed at the weekends, how did this get to be Saturday already!  But here's a photo of Kim beside all the shells, some of them are enormous!

Oyster shells!

  

A nice relaxing afternoon, in our recliners, in the sun, with our books. What a perfect day!  Tonight we think we might go down to the local restaurant -  Dock of the Bay.  We passed it on our bike ride and on Saturday they advertise a $20 seafood bucket - that could be a go!

We take our bikes back down there, drink and ride - hah!  There is a steepish hill coming back and we couldn’t ride up it this morning -  maybe we can tonight!  Nah, we can’t!

Dinner was an experience!  There were some locals who may or may not have been there all day!   Our dinner went something like this, an agee jar of beer and a glass of wine, followed by oyster shooters – gigantic oysters and good tasting.  That followed by a seriously thick seafood chowder and finally we decide to share the seafood bucket!  Well, that was a surprise!  First the waitress laid down a sheet of white newsprint, then the bucket arrived and was ceremoniously emptied onto the paper!  A separate platter of crisp bread, melted butter and spicy tomato sauce and we dive in!  Kim was in charge of crunching the crab shells to get the meat out.  We also had clams, oysters, mussels, prawns, some kind of tasty sausage, corn on the cob, boiled red potatoes - a feeding frenzy.  Not quite what we expected, but it was an experience.

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Oyster shooters, look at the size of that bad boy!

Fishermans Bucket strewn over the table!

Wobbled our way back home safely...  

I accidentally left my apple core outside on the ground today, so did Kim, so when we get back check to see if raccoons like apple cores.  Nope, they don’t, or at least they weren’t hungry, or roaming near us tonight.  Not even in the morning either!