Monday, September 20, 2010

Keyport Centennial Plus

The weather was a hodge podge this weekend.  The forecast said it was going to be soggy, but it turned out to be very nice during the daylight hours with rain coming in Saturday night.  We did some volunteer hours on Saturday morning at the neighborhood P-Patch where we've had a vegetable plot this summer.  Then we headed to the Keyport Centennial Plus Festival

Keyport is located just south of Poulsbo and accessible by water so we motored over and anchored, then took the dinghy over to the Keyport pier.

This was the view from the anchorage. No rain.  At least not yet.


Ready to go in the dinghy.


Our welcome at Keyport's pier.



Here were some of the catches of the day by some kids at the pier.


A small shark?  Yikes!


It may look like a small festival, and it was. But Keyport is a small town.


The heart of the little town.


Further down the street was the car show.  There were lots of neat  looking vehicles.



Keyport is home to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, a research and development center for submarines and torpedoes.  The Naval Undersea Museum is also in Keyport. 


These are a couple of deep submergence vehicles on display outside of the museum.



We didn't go inside the museum. We'll save that for a rainy day. We headed back to the boat and got a little bit of light-wind sailing in and caught sight of the schooner Lavengro, which we learned is the official tall ship of Kitsap County.


A few minutes later, the expected rain did materilize. We were happy it held off as long as it did.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week!