9/12/11: We left Avalon about 9am, very calm and nice out, no rougher than motoring through the San Juan Islands at home. We anchored in Newport at about 1:30pm. This is not at all like we were expecting. The guide book and chart indicate a lot of anchoring fields all through Newport Bay, especially around Lido Peninsula. But what we found was a very narrow fairway down one side and thousands of boats on mooring buoys filling up the rest of the space. We finally found a bit of open ground right at the stern of the Google boat (formerly Sony Playstation’s boat) and anchored in about 8’ of water. I feel like I’m in a motorhome parked in a Wal-Mart parking lot with dozens of other motorhomes all crammed together. We don’t really like it here, and probably won’t bother taking the dinghy off the davits for a little putt to look around. I couldn’t find any open wifi for an internet connection either. We are very disappointed. So I guess we’ll spend the afternoon reading. I might take a shower on the poop deck with the solar shower after dark so I won’t offend any prying eyes!
A couple of the guys from the Google boat dinghied by and told us the port might not let us anchor here because we are in the wrong spot—they just wanted to let us know. They showed us where to anchor, so we moved. I now have internet (poor signal, but still, it’s internet)!
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