July 8th, Stuart Island To Sucia Island State Park
Trip Length 14 nm
We decided to spend a night anchored out at Sucia Island Fossil Bay.
The anchorage at fossil Bay is mostly taken up by moorings and there is not much room to anchor so we ended up fairly far out in the cove with no protection from the South East. In the calm conditions was no problem and we had a great view out over the water outside bay.
After walking the Island there is a lot more room in Echo Bay where you can anchor in great spots and if Shallow Bay, on the west side with green/red markers at entrance, has enough depth it looked nice also. Both Echo and Shallow had nice beaches to dinghy too.
We took a very nice hike around the perimeter of the island where the trail crosses over from Fossil Bay dock over around the bottom to the most North west point of Echo Bay. On the way back we cut over to the trail with the red/green markers at Shallow Bay on the west side of Sucia.
Once we got to Echo Bay we could see that there are plenty of nice anchorage spots there verses the tightly spaced Fossil Bay.
No dock at Echo Bay for dogs but beach looked good for dinghy landing at end of bay.
At the North West point of Echo is a nice clean beach for dog swimming to reward you for the walk.
We then back tracked down the trail and took a right to go over to the trail skirting the dinghy beach at Shallow Bay.
