Get-away, Hacked, Home

Monday evening we sailed through light traffic to get the the ferry to sail away to Whidbey Island for a short break.

We spent most of Tuesday touring in some of our favorite spots, and a few new ones.

Driving on to Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve. 

Sitting by the beach, watching all the other tourists hike up the bluff. I used to be able to do that. 

The tide is very low, exposing rocks that are almost always under water. 

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Then we drove up to the cemetery up on the hill, and looked out over the prairie, which has been preserved as farmland. 

So beautiful.

Captain Coupe, for whom the nearby town of Coupeville is named.

Isaac Ebey, who with his family first settled here.

Reconstruction of the original blockhouse. While the indiginous peoples were friendly here, Ebey was eventually killed by Alaskan natives looking for a while chief to revenge one of thier own. 

From here we drove over to Coupeville and found a city park to eat our little picnic lunch. We were joined by a deer friend.

We had planned to have coffee and dessert at a coffee shop on the Coupeville Wharf, a shop operated by indiginous peoples, but after walking out there, we discovered that they were closed on Tuesdays. There was a nice gift shop though. 

We found coffee and yummy dessert at another coffee shop that we had visited before.  Then we decided to return to the cabin to be lazy for a while.

Wednesday Tom gardened while I did PT exercises. We planned to have downtime in the afternoon before packing up to return home. 

It was then that we started getting text messages or phone calls from family and friends about a scam, asking for Amazon gift cards for some "cousin" with cancer. We had been hacked, apparently our whole email address book getting scam contact. 

 

I had my laptop with me so I got the password changed and began answering messages, all while being very annoyed about the intrusion. W packed up and left to go have dinner on the way home.

This morning we have spent two and a half  hours on the phone with Xfinity trying to get our email fixed. It was all going to trash, and not coming in at all on Tom's phone. Finally, it was done. After two tech men failed, it took a woman. :-)

Now it's time for a late lunch. Whew.