HOPEWELL BAY Anchor to Unknown Anchor / Thursday, July 21 (Day 183)

Admiral's Log:     7:05 am, 7/21/16
                         Air Temp:   66     Water Temp:   69
                        Winds:   9 mph
                        Speed:   9.0 knots

Today is the half way point! If we were taking a full year to do this, today we would be half way. We think we will be home mid December, so we are really more than half way. Hard to believe!

It was pretty windy when we left. We were to go in open water to get to our next anchorage. When we got to the open water, all 5 boats decided it was way too rough to make the 18 miles we had planned. So at 7:45 we all turned around to head back to where we just anchored. When we got there, we could not get our anchor to set right and Mike did not like the wind direction.

Turning around from the rough water.

We left the group and found a different anchorage at 10:00. It turned out to be more protected from the winds we were experiencing. There were to be 30 mile per hour gusts, so we battened down the hatches. We had a pretty hard rain and gusts for about an hour. We napped, read and hunkered down for the night and hoped to head out again in the morning.

We had a drone checking us out. Not sure if it was a home owner not so happy with us or a real estate agent.

Day is done...