Fish Creek to Horseshoe Island 

Kim, Scott and Autumn headed home today, we all enjoyed Autumn as she taught us

about parenting and new born care. We had a great time with them this weekend and I hope their schedules will allow another visit.  Checkout from Alibi Dock is noon and this is the second Monday noon it began to shower right at noon. We expected a front to pass in the afternoon so as we headed for Nicolet Bay we stopped to check out Horseshoe Island. The bay on the Island is protected from north and northeast winds. There were a few sail and power boats already in the bay we tried to anchor but once our anchor was set we seemed to be in the way of other boats so with the wind still from the South we headed to Nicolet Bay to wait for the wind shift. About 4:00 I noticed a squall line moving toward us, a quick look on the radar confirmed a storm was headed our way, but just a line of showers and then clearing.

The wind picked up as it often does prior to a storm and shifted to the NW as predicted, I clocked winds to 23 Knots on my hand held anemometer, NOAA said gusts to 30 Knots. Then it rained and rained hard for 30 minutes. After the rain passed the skies cleared and the wind continued to shift north, we raised the anchor and headed for Horseshoe Island. Some boats had cleared out and others were headed for the Island. We found a nice spot and set our anchor, but the wind in the bay was not consistent and after an hour or so we determined the variable wind was moving our anchor. Two anchor moves later we had set both our large plow anchor and our Danforth near each other but were still not sure they were holding again variable winds moving he boat sideways with respect to the anchor. There is a small sea wall in the bay and another boat was tied to the wall. I asked if they could move forward and the agreed to move, so we are currently tied to about 30 ft. of sea wall in a shallow area but we know we will be right here in the morning. We met Matt and Kim that helped us land and were gracious enough to move their boat, nice couple from Sturgeon Bay. By that time it was getting dark and time to go inside.