Lopez Island -- one of the regular stops on the Mundt cruising schedule. Last night we came into Fisherman Bay, a large bay on the west side of Lopez Island. The depth is adequate once you are inside but the entrance is very shallow at a low tide. We generally try to time our arrival with high tide, or at least a rising tide! Our friends Jim and Birte tell us that nearly every weekend they see boats aground in the entrance. Having had one encounter with the bottom this trip we aren't taking any chances! So we wait until nearly 9PM before entering.
There are many reasons why we love Lopez, and since we are Mundts, many of them involve food! We have already introduced you to our favorite farm on Lopez, the Horse Drawn Farm. Saturdays from May to October there is the Farmer's Market, located in a field just up the road from the village near Fisherman Bay. In addition there is an old-fashioned soda fountain/cafeteria in the back of the drugstore, a 'world-famous' bakery, a wonderful natural food store, a couple of great coffee shops and various restaurants. Our favorite restaurant is The Vortex -- a super place to get soups, wraps, smoothies and other tasty treats. They have a great deck that is sheltered from the wind and we haven't missed lunch at the Vortex many times in the past ten years or so! This trip was no exception. The problem was that it was only 10:00 and people were hungry. So we hit the drugstore for some bacon, eggs and pancakes to fuel ourselves for the main reason we come to Lopez....THE DUMP.
Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays the dump is open to the public. This is a dump like no other. Everything is well-organized, sorted and FREE! Liz used to be the main proponent of a visit to the dump. But last year Carl went along and discovered a wonderful sweatshirt of a sort he'd been looking for without success and he became hooked. The dump opens at noon and Carl and Liz headed down the road to see what sort of treasures they could find while Jude went to the library to use their free wireless to work on uploading blog posts. Lopez has a great library and we spent quite a bit of time there using their wireless and browsing the magazine and book racks. Liz was thinking maybe it was time to see what "Twilight" was all about, but all the books were checked out. Surprise.
About 2:00 we were feeling a few hunger pangs again so we walked to the Vortex. We felt right at home and Liz and the girl behind the counter bonded over their wrist braces and compared their overuse injuries. The weather was nice enough to eat outside on the deck and as Liz showed her finds from the dump the girls working inside at the Vortex watched through the window and gave "thumbs up" for the items they liked. Or were they recognizing something they had gotten rid of the week before?!
We left Fisherman Bay that evening, but that's a fiasco for another day.
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