1st Sighting of Our Pirates
The above was our first sighting of Ghost as she approached from the North and her month long sailing venture up the inside passage toward Alaska. We were standing on Wilson Point just outside Port Townsend, Washington hoping to get a glimpse of her coming out of the fog. The "Ghost" and crew were sailing into the Harbor of Port Townsend to attend a giant party (more on this later) hosted by "Latitudes and Attitudes, a world wide sailing organization that Scott and family have been active in the entire time they have been living aboard their boat. Scott has the front sail down and continues to work on the other two as Angela and Crew continue to pilot toward the harbor.
We were emotional enough seeing the Ghost and Crew appear out of the fog but as you can see from the above we were also proud to see them greeted by Cannon fire from the ships already in the harbor and being welcomed and helped in to their slip as Scott, pictured above, maneuvers Ghost gently to the dock. Even though Grandma and Grandpa were present we were not seen yet by the kids as we witnessed them calling out the many ships by name that were already in the harbor. They were excited as they knew that they soon would be wearing their official pirate gear and participating in all the festivities planned for the week-end.
As Scott and Angela were busy greeting and being greeted by so many friends, Grandpa took over supervising the kids as they set about doing what they love to do: catching and examining the aquatic life that lives around the docks. They had a blast as the girls caught little shrimps for Zak to use as bait. He then proceeded with their help to catch, according to him, "at least a million" dock perch and salt water bullheads. Grandpa got in a little trouble for encouraging the kids to try and sell the perch to those passing by: The kids would try and hawk 4 three inch perch (just enough for a sandwich) for a buck. The Parents were not too pleased with me but hey, This is payback time, right?
