Mount Rainier as seen from Oro Bay.
For Valentine’s Day, we grabbed some nice steaks and headed down to Oro Bay on Anderson Island (South Puget Sound). The wind was predicted to howl out of the North on the following day, so rather than anchor down by the Tacoma Yacht Club outstation, we decided to anchor on the North Side of the Bay and basically had the entire bay and Nisqually Reach all to ourselves.
Beautiful Sunset for VD day in Oro Bay
The water was calm, the sunset colors were amazing, the steaks were melt-melt-in-your-mouth good and Mount Rainer was perfectly framed in the pilothouse windows. What a wonderful way to spend a very happy Valentine’s Day. Makes me want to never, ever leave!
I had passed by Oro Bay so many times in the past. It is stunningly beautiful. The island itself is sparsely populated, but what really makes the area unique is the miles and miles of uninhabited shoreline and nature preserver along the Nisqually River Delta and the Fort Lewis Property between the Delta and Ketron island. There is lots of wildlife and we saw one small sailboat out the entire weekend. Heavenly!
The view out the Pilothouse Windows of N47 Sea Eagle
Another big bonus for the weekend is we stopped to fill up the fuel tanks and Diesel was only $2.64 per gallon. Our annual fuel cost dropped from $2000 to less than $1000 this year!
The only boat we saw over the course of the entire weekend at Oro Bay