Second Port Day at Green Turtle Bay Marina

This blog will chronicle our (Pat and Patty Anderson's)

cruising adventures on the Great Loop!

DAY 173 - September 20, 2017

After a good night's sleep thanks to running the air conditioner all night, we had a luxurious morning with coffee and a "Sunday breakfast" on a Wednesday! Green Turtle Bay has a couple of loaner cars, and we went to the office about 9 a.m. to check out a car for some errands!

We first headed over to the GTB Ship's Store, where we got a new flag to replace our rather shabby looking one,and seven quarts of oil for the next oil change, since we are not sure where we will be when the next service is due. Then we went over to the GTB Boat Works to pay our bill for the new battery, where we ended up talking for quite a while with Gary, who is the manager of the Boat Works. EVERYTHING here is part of the Green Turtle Bay Resort and Marina operation, including the marina, the Ship Store, the Boat Yard, the Yacht Club, Dockers Cafe, the Condo Rental Office and no doubt other stuff that I don't even know about!

We next headed into Grand Rivers, population 350 to go to the grocery store. It is a really well stocked little grocery store, and we got everything on our shopping list except a few perhaps somewhat exotic items like lentils, almond flour and won ton wrappers! The gal at the check-out stand told us that the Green Turtle Bay Resort and Marina company owns 50% of the grocery store and many of the other businesses in town, while the lady who owns Patti's Restaurant owns the other half of the businesses in town!

We stopped again at the Ship Store on the way back because I wanted to get a better pair of slip on shoes, and I found a great pair! I don't know the brand name, but they are cushy, ventilated and really comfortable. My old Walmart rub slip ons got deposited in the dumpster. The old shoes had started making my feet hurt, maybe because my feet had swollen or something, but these new slip ons are the cat's meow!

Three other Looper boats arrived late in the afternoon and are on our little dock in front of the office. We had seen and heard all of them on the VHF at various places around the Loop. Mike on Dash Away, a Monk 36, started from Vermont. Tom and Paula on Tango Papa, another Monk 36, started their Loop at Green Turtle Bay, and with their arrival back at Green Turtle Bay, they crossed their wake to complete their Loop! Among Loopers, crossing your wake is a very big deal! They are not sure what is next in store, but they said they anticipated cruising at least six months our of every year!

Tango Papa, a Monk 36, in slip next to Daydream, has just crossed her wake at Green Turtle Bay!

We will be sorry to have to leave Green Turtle Bay tomorrow morning. We really like this place!  But if we want to cross our wake in La Belle to retrieve and drive back home in time to enjoy Christmas with the our children and grandchildren in the mountain chalet we have rented in Skykomish, Washington, we need to press on!