Boat Sinks Near Bissel Cove

By Camilla Garrison

At about two thirty today, Camilla and Isaac Garrison, were returning from an afternoon post-storm bike ride in the wind around the neighborhood when they stopped for a break on a bench overlooking the water. After chatting with a squirrel having a snack, Camilla asked her sibling “What’s that white thing there in the distance?” The two promptly got up and trekked down the stairs to the beach to get a closer look. Standing atop a rock, hair blowing in the wind, Camilla and Isaac saw an almost completely sunken boat- at least twenty feet, and still attached to its mooring. When the choppy water fell, the siblings could make out a glass-windowed cabin as well as a few pillows floating. As understanding struck them, Camilla and Isaac raced against the wind back down the beach, jumping from rock to rock, went back up to the bench and hopped on the awaiting reporting vehicles. As they peddled home, they remarked that this had been the second incident of boat-sinking in the span of a few weeks! Back at home, the Garrison siblings phoned the Harbor Master to report it, and left him a message before hopping back on the bikes, bearing a cell phone to document. After taking pictures from all angles, they headed back home for the second time with a story to tell. Later they’ll go back to check up on it, so stay tuned!

The boat sank just north of Bissel Cove in between the peninsula and Fox Island