Friday Harbor, San Juan Island

Well, our beautiful blue skies are gone.  The temperature is in the high 50’s so it isn't too cold.  Fred is trying to make our “High Powered Marine WiFi” work.  We purchased the system when we owned our previous boat.  We were able to get it work on Emerald Star last year with little problem. However, we purchased a new laptop this summer and we cannot get the computer and the WiFi to talk to each other.  This is a big deal because phone service is very spotty in British Columbia (where we travel on the coast) and we rely on email to stay in touch with family and friends.  This problem is not resolved yet. We are waiting for tech support to return our call.  We took the dinghy back into Friday Harbor and had a nice walk around.  We found two pet supply stores that Merlin & I had to visit.  When we were done we had a latte at the “Doctor’s Office”.  Apparently it used to be a doctor’s office but now is a little sweet shop.  We sat outside on their porch and watched folks come and go.  We then went for a walk down on the docks to admire other folk’s boats.  We saw real beauties.  There is a great fish store down on the docks.  Right next to it in the water we saw Popeye.  He is a harbor seal who is blind in one eye.  He hangs around here because people buy him sardines or some other small fish and he gets fed.  Merlin was leaning over trying to get a good look at him when Popeye swished water with his fin toward Merlin.  Merlin took exception to this and started barking.  OK, time to move on. We filled up the tank on the dinghy (4 gallons) to the tune of $19.  Back at the boat Fred is still trying to make sense of all the wires behind the TV. Tech support and Fred spoke about our WiFi for the boat and we were told that our system cannot be repaired and should be replaced.  The allocation of “boat units” (i.e. $$) does not support that expenditure at this time.  At least our Ocens email works great now.