Im In the process of moving to Charleston SC and should be set up before August . I plan to do one more overnight on my lake in Alabama before I leave. Once in Charleston I’ll have an entirely new set of destinations to explore so I’m rather stoked about it. I’ve done coastal cruising as a tourist a week each summer but I’ve never had the opportunity to live it. So my plan is to get set up then start exploring my new sailing grounds... find a group of like minded sailors... maybe get into weekend racing and a lot more weekend ghunkholing. I also plan to eat a lot more fish
Two summers ago after clearing customs in Roche Harbor we spent the next 8 weeks cruising clear down to Olympia and back. Utilizing your WA State Park permit, yacht club reciprocals and your many anchorages we had a blast. Amongst the many highlites was a stop at Bells Harbour to attend a Blue Jays Mariners game. A memorable 2 months. Not going to happen this year.
A month sounds good! Head south until you run into land, then turn around and head home...
We're focusing on the south sound, several days to a week or more at a time this year. 
At Russel Island Marine Park, Fulford Harbour
Mooring Balls in Butchart Cove and dinghy dock to the gardens
Part of the sunken garden. I can rotate pics on my laptop but the IPad is over my head!
I am onboard with you Michael. I have had enough of putzing about the lower end of the Strait of Georgia over the past 3 months. We will be our way north to Desolation and beyond starting tomorrow. Absolutely respecting the smaller communities and islands space. Definitely a different time. We still miss sailing and our friends below the 49th parallel.
Time for you to join us in the frozen north country,Stu. If we can’t be with our southern friends we can at least entertain each other.Concur. It's just me, Len and Michael left up here all by our lonesomes.
Thanks for the note. Most of our family is in the Olympia area so provisions there won't be a problem. It does make a great place to go.A month sounds good! Head south until you run into land, then turn around and head home...
Large quantity reprovisioning isn't the easiest thing to accomplish in the south sound... the Bayview Thriftway is an easy walk from Percival Landing in Olympia. We are in Tacoma at the Foss Harbor Marina, great people there, the most helpful of any marina staff that I've had experience with, perhaps they could help with provisioning logistics if contacted ahead of time (if they can't, contact me, we can help run down supplies if necessary). They have a marina store for essentials and live-aboard convenience items. Downtown Tacoma is a nice place to spend some time in a "normal" year... the Foss Waterway has several marinas, museums, restaurants and municipal docks within about a mile and a half stretch. There is also a relative concentration of amenities at the Point Defiance/Tacoma Yacht Club area, but the distances between options are greater out there.
I'll try to keep an eye on this thread. We'll be out and exploring (based on the "Gunkholing" the south Puget Sound book) all summer. I have a list of more than a dozen places that I'd like to check out. We're trying to use this year to learn, practice, and become more adventurous for next summer.
It was much safer to use those guys' names than Lisa, Megan and Rachael. Still three, though: