July 8th, Shearwater

We left Port McNiell at 0600 on July 6th and had an uneventful crossing to Rivers Inlet.  That is if you call driving in the fog with radar glitches and other weirdness in the electronics uneventful.  A large cruise ship passed us in the fog whic was fun conversing with the pilot.  Eventually we sorted out the issues and carried on around Cape Caution.  The Pacific swells were 1.2 meters and there was no wave action so it was just a slow, lazy up and down motion.  We anchored at the head of Goose Inlet and set our crab traps.  After four hours I tried to pull the first one but it was really heavy coming up so I thought I must have snagged something. Nope, it was jammed with sixteen male Dungeness and a couple of rock crabs.  We can't eat that much crab so we kept a few of the larger ones and let the rest go.  The rest of the night was spent cleaning crab, boiling crab, eating crab.

Measuring crabs.



16 crabs in one set!

On the 7th we headed up Fitzhugh Sound to Pruth Bay, one of our favourite anchorages.  The head of the inlet is only a short hike across the island to a fantastic, white sand beach.  We beachcombed for an hour and came up with what looks like debris from the Japanese tsunami.  The bag is definitily Japanese and the float looks like a net float which could also be Japanese.  We don't have a geiger counter so we hope it isn't radioactive!



Wild flowers on the beach.

Tsunami debris??

Net float

West beach.

On the 8th we headed up to Shearwater on Denny Island to restock fresh vegetables.  Crab cakes for dinner tonight.  Crab Louie salad for lunch.  We have to catch a halibut or some spot prawns to change the diet a bit.

Departing Pruth Bay 0600. dead calm.