I can't get away from Bainbridge Island

Actually, it was my vote to stay in the first place... we had planned to head out today, but I thought Mandy would like to hang around and see lovely downtown Winslow. That was before it started to rain. Anyway, we're tucked away warm and dry at the local library for the moment. And we got to walk around a bit before it started raining, so hopefully she got her fill of quaint cottages and parks. We'll grab lunch somewhere in town on the way back to the waterfront.

Tomorrow I am not sure where we will go. The original plan had been to check out the south sound on this trip. That was the same plan as last time, of course, but this time we simply missed our window... Mandy wanted to stay close to town for Monday, and now the wind has shifted so it's out of the south, and since we're doing this for fun and not simply to say we did it, a six or seven hour tacking marathon to get down to Gig Harbor just isn't in the cards. But we don't really want to hit our old haunts up north, either. There are fewer options in the mid-sound region, at least if you discount Poulsbo/Bainbridge and the Port Orchard area, which is where we have spent the past week already. I'm inclined toward Kingston or Everett at the moment, but we'll see what the weather is like in the morning. The West Point weather station showed wind out of the northwest this morning, which put me in for a bit of confusion... another instance of too much information being a bad thing. I thought for a bit we might get to Gig Harbor after all, but the reading seemed anomalous and at odds with the forecast so I dithered, and here we sat instead.

But it's not a bad place to sit and Mandy is picking out places for lunch right now, which beats a peanut butter sandwich on the boat, and might even make up for the damp seats in the dinghy we'll have to deal with on the way back out.